Nola città augustea nel Rinascimento meridionale: intorno al De Nola di Ambrogio Leone

In his pioneering antiquarian work De Nola (Venice 1514), the Nolan humanist Ambrogio Leone discusses, among many other topics, the ancient sources connected with the death of Augustus at Nola, and with the presence, in the same city, of a temple dedicated to the Augustan cult. In this discussion, Leone displays his ability to manage Greek and Latin texts, and to match literary and epigraphic testimonies with the archaeological data which he collected on the basis of his own critical evaluation. Not without a certain manipulation of his sources, he proposes to identify the site of the temple of Augustus with some ruins that he considers the core of the ancient city, just outside the walls of the modern Nola. Keywords: Ambrogio Leone, Classical studies, Renaissance antiquarianism, Augustus, Temple of Augustus at Nola, ancient Nola, Renaissance Nola, Renaissance reception of classical authors.