Nestus Fust(i)us, Nestus Fuscus: frammenti inediti di un ignoto grammatico antico nella produzione enciclopedica di Giorgio Valla (1447-1500)

In 1486, Giorgio Valla (1447-1500), scholar and teacher of humanities in Venice, published a commentary on Juvenal that preserved fleeting traces of an ancient corpus of scholia assigned to an unknown Probus. In addition to rare fragments of many ancient authors, the commentary preserved also a fragment, until now ignored, of an unknown Nestus Fustius, whose grammatical pamphlet would have been directed to the famous politician Asinius Pollio. Other fragments of this mysterious grammaticus, extracted from an encyclopedic work of G. Valla that was published in 1501, are here listed and discussed.