Tractatus (libri duo)
· Zeno of Verona
· c. 362-371 (his episcopate at Verona)
· homily
Latin · domain: latin-patristic-fourth-century · researched 2026-11-14
partial / older only. An English translation exists but is partial or older than the critical edition. The gap is a modern, complete translation from the original. A rendering of a daughter version does not count here: it is recorded on the dossier of the text it actually translates.
Why this is in the register
The only English book is Gordon P. Jeanes, 'The day has come! Easter and baptism in Zeno of Verona' (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 1995: https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Zeno%20of%20Verona%20sermons&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 whose own catalogue record specifies 'Sermons. Selections. English' and whose contents are the sermons delivered at the Paschal vigil and the baptismal liturgy — a thematic selection, not the corpus. It is a study with translations embedded in the argument. A query for 'Zeno of Verona complete sermons translation' (https://hollis.harvard.edu/discovery/search?query=any,contains,Zeno%20of%20Verona%20complete%20sermons%20translation&tab=Everything&search_scope=MyInst_and_CI&vid=01HVD_INST:HVD2&offset=0 returns nothing at all. Complete modern translations exist only in other languages: the Spanish 'Tratados' (Madrid: Ciudad Nueva / Facultad de Teología San Vicente Ferrer, 2016, ed. and trans. Joaquín Pascual Torró: https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990148133970203941) and the German 'Des heiligen Bischofs Zeno von Verona Traktate' (Munich: Kösel & Pustet, 1934).
Ninety-odd short homilies from a north Italian city in the 360s, preserved by accident and unusually valuable because they are preached texts rather than literary treatises: they show what a bishop actually said to a congregation about baptism, the Easter vigil, fasting, wealth and the martyrs, in a style full of popular imagery and sometimes clumsy Latin. Zeno is the closest thing we have to the ordinary preaching of fourth-century Italy outside Ambrose and Chromatius. The English reader has only the Easter sermons, so the social and moral teaching — the bulk of the corpus — is inaccessible.
language: en · Selected Paschal and baptismal sermons only, translated inside a study of the Easter liturgy; explicitly 'Selections. English' in the catalogue record
Hegedus, Tim, 1958-. "Early Christianity and ancient astrology." New York : Peter Lang, c2007. https://hollis.harvard.edu/permalink/f/1s5nto6/990104347930203941