Abstract
An interesting original edition has been discovered in the Bologna Library, containing the Progymnasmata Thomae Mori et Guilielmi Lilii. These Progymnasmata open with the Epigrammata clarissimi disertissimique viri Thomae Mori Britanni, pleraque e Graecis versa which were integrated in Thomas More’s De optimo reipublicae statu deque nova insula Utopia from the Basel editions of 1518 and 1520 (princeps 1516: Libellus vere aureus nec minus salutaris quam festiuus de optimo reip. statu, deque nova insula Utopiae, [Lovanii], Arte Th. Martini, 1516). The pages containing the Progymnasmata also contain a copy of a 1518 edition of Utopia owned by the Bolognese Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605) which was incorporated into the volume of the University of Bologna Library referenced A.V. Tab.I.H.I. 33/1-3. On this excerptum (today referenced A.V. Tab.I.H.I. 33/2) an ancient anonymous hand has written a few very interesting marginalia. Their analysis allows us to propose new hypotheses concerning the Progymnasmata, their origin and the entourage of the More family.
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