The Italian Johannes Opicius on Henry VII of England's 1492 invasion of France: historical witness and antique convention
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The paper explicates the literary and historical contexts of Latin verse writings of a young Italian, Johannes Opicius (fl. 1492–1515), on the 1492 invasion of France by the Tudor sovereign Henry VII (r. 1485–1509). Opicius had access to veracious information about the overseas campaign of the English king and army, as is confirmed by other surviving documentary and narrative sources. On the other hand, after the fashion of the Tudor laureate Bernard André (c. 1450–1522), Opicius’ poetry is also shaped by his close imitation of ancient poetry, including the Laus Pisonis (c. 62) and writings by and about M. Annaeus Lucanus (d. 65), as well as standard curricular authors. Classical emulation and historiographical veracity are not inimical to one another in Opicius’ work, however; it is argued finally that both contributed to the English king's glorification. Critical texts and annotations are appended. (pp. 520–546)
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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