Enoch of Ascoli

Enoch of Ascoli (ca. 1400 to ca. 1457) was a humanist and agent of Nicholas V ^[1] in charge of collecting manuscripts around Europe for the newly founded library of the Pope.

He is notably responsible for the finding and retrieval, from a German monastery, of the only existing manuscript of Tacitus's minor books.

References

^ Daniel Mendelsohn, New Yorker, 03/01/2011

External links

The free dictionary [1]
Where the manuscript is currently held [2]

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Name	Enoch of Ascoli
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Date of birth	c. 1400
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Date of death	c. 1457
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