The article presents the work of XVI century Cretan humanist Franciscus Portus (1511-1581) on Aeschylus. After a presentation of the ms. B.P.L. 180 (conserved in Leiden University Library), Portus� autograph which represents the first western commentary on all survived plays by Aeschylus and nowadays still unpublished (subject of my doctoral dissertation at the University of Trento), and of Portus� Aeschylean interests altogether, the paper discusses the Cretan�s fortune and contribution in western Aeschylean exegesis and textual critic, from XVI century onward. In order to do that, some passages are considered and discussed, by comparing Portus� works (B.P.L. 180 and marginalia conserved in several XVI century editions) with modern editions (from Blomfield on).
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