This is an extremely valuable edition and translation that serious students of the history of classical scholarship, the Renaissance, and Italian topography will want to have in their libraries...There is much to praise in this new edition and translation of an especially interesting text and invaluable work of Renaissance humanism. White states that he feels "lucky" to belong to the I Tatti series, but the series itself is fortunate to have a book of this quality within it. I look forward eagerly to the appearance of its second volume.
   --Harry B. Evans, New England Classical Journal

An informative and immensely readable book.
   --Anthony T. Grafton, New York Review of Books

Jeffrey A. White is Associate Professor of Classical Languages at St. Bonaventure University.