Cum adulescens litteris Graecis operam darem

The Lombard antiquarian and humanist Giovanni Bartolomeo Marliano (1488-1566) bequeathed to the convent of Sant'Agostino in Rome - now the Biblioteca Angelica - a rich collection of manuscripts, compiled during years of study of the Greco-Latin classics. Among them is a select collection of Latin translations of Greek authors that, plausibly, Marliano had used in his humanistic training. The objec...