Danilo Siragusa

In this paper we try to identify the sources used by the humanist Aulus Ianus Parrhasius in a letter that he sent in 1512 to the Sicilian intellectual Ludovicus Montaltus. The epistula, already published by Francesco Lo Parco in 1899, is the preface to De ponderibus ac mensuris, a parrhasian work transmitted by the manuscript XIII. B. 16 of Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli: through an analysis of the evidence we prove that the text of the letter consists of the recovery of ancient sources (Pindar, Cicero, Solinus etc.) and, probably, of ʻcontemporariesʼ authors (an elegy of Jacopo Sannazzaro and other humanists)...