Politian was professor of Greek and Latin literature at Florence from 1480; among his pupils were the Englishmen, Grocyn and Linacre, and the German Reuchlin.
Politian was one of the first Italian Humanists who succeeded in rivalling the Greek scholarship of the native-born Hellenes.
As a Humanist, Politian is a Latin writer ef poetry and prose, a poet of Latin sentiment in Italian.
Politian was looking at M itself, and not the exemplar from which Poggio had M copied, when he was entering into his copy of the editio princeps the readings of what he believed to be the source of all mss.
The one strong piece of evidence to the contrary, Politian's statement that line 1.4.86a was absent from his manuscript, is rightly explained as an error in collation caused by identical line endings.
Die-hard skeptics who maintain that Politian was collating an apograph of M and not M itself will have to explain why, if Politian was collating an apograph of M, the discrepancies he recorded in the editio princeps are so few and so trivial.
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