Flavius Lucius Dexter
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Flavius Lucius Dexter was a figure of the late fourth century, reported as a historian, and a friend of St Jerome. He was the son of St Pacian, an imperial office-holder, and dedicatee of a work of Jerome, the De Viris Illustribus
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He was the supposed author of a chronicle, now called the Chronicon of Pseudo-Dexter. It was in fact a forgery, one of a number of Román de la Higuera (1538–1611) including the continuation attributed to Marcus Maximus, as scholars now agree. The suspect authorship has been widely known since the work of the Spanish bibliographer Nicolás Antonio
, the Censura de historias fabulosas, published in 1742.
Doubts were already cast on these falsos chronicones before 1600, but controversy continued late into the eighteenth century. The Cistercian François de Bivar (Bivarius) published a commentary and strong defence (Lyon, 1627). Later references to the Chronicon as genuine abound.
De Viris Illustribus (Jerome)
De viris illustribus is a collection of short biographies of 135 authors, written in Latin, by the 4th century Latin Church Father Jerome. He completed this work at Bethlehem in 392-3 CE. The work consists of a prologue plus 135 chapters, each consisting of a brief biography. Jerome himself is...
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He was the supposed author of a chronicle, now called the Chronicon of Pseudo-Dexter. It was in fact a forgery, one of a number of Román de la Higuera (1538–1611) including the continuation attributed to Marcus Maximus, as scholars now agree. The suspect authorship has been widely known since the work of the Spanish bibliographer Nicolás Antonio
Nicolás Antonio
Nicolás Antonio was a Spanish bibliographer born in Seville. After taking his degree in Salamanca , he returned to his native city, wrote his treatise De Exilio , and began his monumental register of Spanish writers...
, the Censura de historias fabulosas, published in 1742.
Doubts were already cast on these falsos chronicones before 1600, but controversy continued late into the eighteenth century. The Cistercian François de Bivar (Bivarius) published a commentary and strong defence (Lyon, 1627). Later references to the Chronicon as genuine abound.