De Mulieribus Claris by Giovanni Boccaccio--Delphi Classics (Illustrated) by Giovanni Boccaccio

Author:Giovanni Boccaccio [BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNI]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Parts Edition 9 of 12 by Delphi Classics
Publisher: Delphi Classics (Parts Edition)
Published: 2017-12-24T00:00:00+00:00

Of Nycostrata, or otherwyse Carmenta, doughter to Kynge Yonius.

The xxvth Chapitre.

NYCOSTRATA, WHICHE WAS surnamede Carmewta emongste the Italianes, was doughter of Yonius, the Kynge of Arcadia, as sum wryte, and was maryede to Pallawtes, which lady not onely was decorate with the name of a quene, but also she was moste cunnyng in the Greke letters. So exellente a wytte had she in lemynge, and she was so vigilant in study theron, that she became a notable prophete. And sumtyme to thos that demaundyd questiones of hyr she tolde theym thynges to cum and wrote also true thynges that folowed many yeres after, and for that the Latyns, abolyshywg hyr fyrste name, callede hyr Carmenta. Thys woman was mother to Euander, the Kynge of Archadia, whiche the olde tales affyrme, because he was eloquent, to be sonne of Mercurye. But as sume saye, yet it fortunede by chaunce he slewe hys oune father, and sum other wryteth that it was by the sedicione of the people. Whether it wer the tone or the tother, he was expulsyde owte of hys realme and by the counsell and prophecying of hys mother toke shyppynge and saylede so longe that at the last he arryuyde at the mouthe of Tyber, and by hyr counsell, by the hyll called Pallantes, whiche had that name by hys sonne Pallas, he reedyfyede ther a towne, where niter the greate Rome was buyldyd, and namede the towne after the hyll Pallantes. Now when Cannent a was comen thyther, she founde the people ther all rude and barbarouse and muche lyke to wylde men. All thoughe that Satume a lytle tofore had taught theym how to sowe and to eare, yet they knewe noo letters as the Grekys dyd. Wherfore thys lady, perseyuynge in hyr mynde the pleasure of the grownde and forseynge what a cyte that sumtyme shulde be made ther, she taughte and deuysed emonge theym carecters and letters discrepant frome other nationes. To whiche godly purpose Goddes helpe lackyde not, soo that by Hys grace she sett forth onely sexten lettres, as Cadmus, the buylder of Thebes, had doone to the Grecians, whiche we call vnto thys present tyme the Latyn lettres. Whiche inuentione semyde to be suche to the Latyns that they beleuyde hyr rather to be a goddesse then a mortall woman ande for a perpetuall memorye buyldyde vndre the Capitoll an oratory, callede Carmenta. And Rome, when he was moste greateste, woldnot chaynge it, but the gate of the cytie, whiche by necessite then buyldyde they namede it Carmenta, of the name of thys woman Carmenta. Italy in olde tyme aboue other regyones florysshede in hononr and vertue, shynynge as a celestiall lyghte. Nor soo renomyde a countrye hath not bene vndre the heuen. For frame Asya came ryches and sumptuousnes of howsholde, mete for kynges, and nobilyte of bloode procedynge frome the Grecians, fyrste had of Troyanes. The Egyptiens gaue vs arsmetryke and geometry; and philozophy and eloquens and wellnere all

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