Galateo alla corte di Giulio II papa (1510/1511)

The year 2017 celebrates the V centenary of one of the greatest glories of Salento: Antonio de Ferraris, known as the Galateo († 1517). There is a vast bibliographic repertoire on him, which reaches our days. In the light of this great literary heritage it seems to be the case to develop in a different light and for other ways the knowledge of this Salento humanist. I thought it appropriate to create a historical-ecclesiastical framework around him taking the cue from his flattering gesture towards Julius II (1503-1513): the tribute to the copy of a Greek text by the famous Donatio Costantini, an episode generally left unchallenged by the scholars of Galateo, which extends the most ecclesiastically-political theme of his thinking about the nature and origin of the Papal State.