Egio, Benedetto

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† 1568/1570
born in Spoleto
specialist in ancient Greek
editor of the "Bibliotheke" by Pseudo-Apollodorus for / dedicated to Jean Matal: " Apollodori Atheniensis Bibliotheces…", Roma: Blado, 1555 [online]

dazu: [Botfield 1861: 475]; [Nolhac 1887: 6]; [Wagner 1926 (2. Aufl.): V]; [Hobson 1975: 46]; [Cooper 1993: 111]; [Crawford 1993: 136]
the original manuscript was owned by Matal himself
contains a letter to Fulvio Orsini listing members of the Roman network: Guglielmo Sirleto, Basilio Zanchi, Giovanni Cesari, Scipione Tetti, Viviano Brunori, Giordano Giordani (from Urbino), Angelo Colocci
the dedication in the 1565 Antwerp edition mentions also Antonio Agustín

[Cosenza 1962: I: 62]; [Ferrary 1985: 422];
contributed to Matal's sylloge: BAV Vat. lat. 6039: 207r, 224r [Cooper 1993: 98, 101f., 103]
[Crawford 1993, 2: 133–154]; [Laureys/Schreurs 1996]; [Laureys 1996, bes. 165f.]
[Nolhac 1887: 21] writes that Egio died in 1567, but [Crawford 1993: 142] limits the time of Egio's death to between 1568 and 1570 because of a letter written by Agustín to Orsini on 1571-02-24.

von Egio stammen handschriftliche kritische Anmerkungen an einem Exemplar der Topographia Marlianos.
Egios Bibliothek aufgeführt bei Crawford, Michael H.: Benedetto Egio and the development of Greek epigraphy, in [Agustín 1993], 133-154,
dazu kommen laut Laureys/Schreurs noch je ein Expl.

Libri de re rustica. Venedig: in aedibus Aldi et Andreae soceri, 1514
Stephani Nigri elegantissime e Greco authorum subditorum translationes. Milano: per Ioannem de Castelliono, 1521

S. 398, n. 50: Egio and Ligorio were praised together for their antiquarian studies by O. Panvinio in the preface to his Rei publicae Romanae commentarii (1558): "Nouissime Benedictus Aegius, & Pyrrhus Ligorius antiquitatu[m] omnium peritissimi vrbis ruina explicandas & illustrandas susceperunt."