“Maiora sunt quae a te accepi quam ut taceri debeantˮ: sette lettere del poeta Justus Rickius a Federico Borromeo

The essay publishes seven letters sent between 1612 and 1627 by the Ghent poet Justus Ryckius to the archbishop of Milan Federico Borromeo, founder of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana and esteemed patron of art and culture. The letters, not all already known, testify to the Flemish’s gratitude towards the learned prelate, who had hosted the young man during his first stay in Italy, and document new traits of the last section of his biography, concluded in the Rome of Pope Urban VIII Maffeo Barberini, who favored him as a Latin poet, and then in Bologna, where Ryckius was hired as a professor of humanities.