Il Poggianus deperditus di Nonio Marcello ritrovato: storia di un manoscritto carolino in età umanistica

The Carolingian manuscript Poggianus of Nonius Marcellus, which Poggio styles libellus, has been unanimously deemed lost. Here, however, by tracing its extraordinary history - Poggio’s dispatching it from Paris to Niccoli in Florence, completion by a humanistic hand, various changes of ownership - one sees how it came to be in the Laurentian Library, where it is still preserved as Plut. 48,1 (a composite ms.: books I-III Carolingian, IV-XX humanistic). A series of complex and fascinating events that centre around Florence.