Riflessioni di Piero Vettori sulla restituzione dei testi

The paper illustrates the critical method adopted by Piero Vettori as it emerges from his own remarks annotated in the margins of some printed editions, his Commentarii to the works of Greek and Latin authors. The paper examines some passages from the Ciceronian Castigationes in which Vettori does not strictly adhere to the theoretical principles often enunciated by him, but in the face of specific cases, he declares that he is not convinced of the lesson handed down by the codex optimus and he sometimes does not make any correction at all.