Osservazioni su una recente edizione della Vita Ignatii attribuita a Niceta David Paflagone

Some remarks on the edition: The Life of Patriarch Ignatius by Nicetas David, text and transl. by A. Smithies with notes by J. M. Duffy, Washington dc 2013. The author addresses biographical data relating to Nicetas David Paphlagon, which is not mentioned in the editor’s introduction about Nicetas. He raises doubts about the editor’s reconstruction of the relationships between the extant and lost manuscripts transmitting the Vita Ignatii. Furthermore, he emphasizes the importance of paying painstaking attention to the role played by its edition in the collection of Concilia generalia ecclesiae catholicae (Rome 1608–12) for the textual criticism of the Vita Ignatii.