Pázmány és Seneca = Pázmány and Seneca

Báthory, Orsolya (2024) Pázmány és Seneca = Pázmány and Seneca. In: MAGYAR SZTOIKUSOK Tanulmányok az újsztoicizmus magyarországi történetéről. Gondolat Kiadó, Budapest, pp. 150-168. ISBN 978 963 556 562 7

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Abstract

Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor, or Seneca the Younger, was one of Pázmány’s favourite authors, with more than half a thousand references to him in his own entire oeuvre,about sixty percent of which are in the Prédikációk (Sermons). The large numberof references and translated quotations means that Pázmány was actually the firstHungarian translator of Seneca’s prose works. Besides the quantitative characteristic,the intensity and specificity of Seneca’s reception are just as important. In some ofhis Sermons, he not only simply quotes the ancient author, but Seneca’s thoughts andquoted texts become the primary argumentative pillars of his discourse. For composingthe Sermons Pázmány demonstrably used compilations of excerpts, florilegiaand probably quoted Seneca from them, but we cannot exclude the use of works involumes. However, Seneca also plays an important role in other works of Pázmány,such as his commentaries on Aristotle and his polemical writings. Did Pázmány alsouse florilegia for these, or did he borrow the texts from separate Seneca-volumes?And regardless of the form of the source, can Pázmány’s references to Seneca beused to identify specific editions of texts that bear the results of humanist Senecaphilology?The question is not uninteresting since the normative corpus of Seneca’stexts began to reach its present state shortly before Pázmány’s literary activity. As apretext for answering these questions the paper provides a schematic overview of thetransmissions of original and pseudo-Seneca texts, the development of the corpus ofwritings known today, and the reception of Seneca in Europe.

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