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This article analyses the entry in some biographical dictionaries of the modern age (eighteenth-nineteenth century): from Pierre Bayle’s dictionary to Johnson’ and Chalmers’, up to Felice Scifoni’. The analysis shows how the fifth-century Christian author Orosius continues to be considered an illustrious man in the modern age, even though the Orosian Studies want him to be forgotten in that period. At the same time, Orosius’s biography seems to be “canonical” in those dictionaries, while the description of his historical work, the , is certainly more complex and controversial.

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Il presente articolo analizza la voce all’interno di alcuni dizionari biografici di età moderna (secc. XVIII–XIX): dal dizionario di Pierre Bayle a quelli di Johnson e Chalmers, sino a quello di Felice Scifoni. Dall’analisi proposta, si evince come Orosio, autore cristiano vissuto nel V secolo, continui a essere considerato un personaggio illustre in età moderna, nonostante gli studi orosiani ne vogliano l’oblio in quel periodo. Al contempo, la biografia di Orosio sembra ormai “canonica” in quei dizionari, mentre la descrizione della sua opera storica, le , appare certamente più complessa e controversa.

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