Notabilia, repertori onomastico-geografici e pubblicazioni erudite dell’umanista Aulo Giano Parrasio

The Italian Humanist Aulus Ianus Parrhasius (1470-1521/1522) wrote a work entitled De rebus per epistolam quaesitis, which is a collection of his emendations to the Greek and Latin classical texts. Parrhasius’ work is based on preparatory studies, which can be observed in some MSS of his collection of books, now preserved mostly at the National Library of Naples. In particular, the article will focus on two MSS, containing respectively an endless list of geographical names (MS. BNN XIIIB.11) and one of proper names of important figures of the Greek and Roman history (BNN V.D.3). For each item of the list both the MSS accumulated a series of ancient sources. As we shall show, Parrhasius took from the two repository MSS the set of sources which were quoted by him in the De rebus per epistolam quaesitis.