"
auctor": "una delle categorie secondo cui si deflnisce
La auctoritas, finalmente, se deriva de la palabra
auctor, que designa el sujeto de la autoridad capaz de comenzar, fundamentar y desarrollar acciones, decisiones y juicios originados en los demas.
Although Seth Lerer assumes that the image imagines the moment when Lydgate presents his work to his "patron" (i.e., Boccaccio), logic suggests to me that the book is passing in the opposite direction: from the long-dead
auctor to his follower to translate.
Winkler's paradigm-shifting work of 1985,
Auctor and Actor, prompted a resurgence of Apuleian studies with a much broader cultural and aesthetic remit.
Y es gran peligro transcorrer en mucho credito cuando quien es
auctor de lo falso es hombre grave e de auctoridad (Historia, I: 14).