Persons known by name
Matal [Metellus], Jean
- Very productive collector and commentor of Roman inscriptions: at least 6 manuscript volumes in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana document his vast amount of work in close collaboration with Antonio Agostín (whose secretary Matal was) and other members from the Accademia, among them:
- Philandrier
- Pighius
- Aldo Manutio the Younger
- Martin Smet
- Pirro Ligorio
- Onofrio Panvinio
- Alciati
- Ottavio Pantagato (who may have introduced Matal to cardinal Pole in Rome)
- Zasius
- Reginald Pole
- Georg Cassander (gest. 1566)
- Pedro Ximénez (gest. 1595)
- Erasmus von Rotterdam (dessen Freiburger Zirkeln in den 1530er Jahren)
- Gilbert Cousin (Schüler Erasmus')
- Birckmann-Mylius
- Gymnich
- Christophe Plantin: printer
- Michael von Aitzing, dessen "Periodische Meßrelationen" die seit 1583 in Köln erschienen, als ein unmittelbarer Vorläufer der modernen Zeitung die Aufmerksamkeit der medien- und kommunikationsgeschichtlichen Forschung finden. [FN 4: S. unten Seite 386ff (Kap. C/4.6.5], 416f. (Kap. C/5.1)]
- Gerhard Mercator
- Abraham Ortelius: author of the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum
- Georg Braun
- Franz Hogenberg
- Hubert Languet
- Rabelais
- In 1578 and 1579 Matal used his Roman connections [Orsini, Latini, Sirleto, Ticinius] to suggest the participation of the Utrecht astronom and mathematician Albert van Leeuwen (Albertus Leoninus) in the calendar reform project of Gregor XIII.
