Medieval and Humanistic Philology, Classical Scholarship, Italian Humanism, Early-Seventeenth Century Scholarship, Early-modern Republic of Letters
Abstract
The Paduan scholar Lorenzo Pignoria, in a letter to his friend Francesco Pola (July 1st, 1615), put in an ordered list several ancient rare texts discovered by Italian humanists in the XIV and XV centuries, someway anticipating the achievements of later scholars (e.g. Remigio Sabbadini, whose researches partly concerned the same subject). The paper discusses this valuable example of early-modern scholarship and provides an annotated edition of the letter.
Biografia autore
Simone Signaroli, Ricercatore indipendente
Curatore delle collezioni storiche per il Servizio Archivistico Comprensoriale di Valle Camonica; Socio della Società Storica e Antropologica di Valle Camonica