"He represented to the life...not only outward actions...but also the most secret of thoughts."
— Tacitus

January 1, 1970

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Girolamo Canini (d.1626), the prefatory 'del modo di cavar profitto della lettura' to Tacitus, Opera (1628), quoted in Peter Burke, 'A Survey of the Popularity of Ancient Historians, 1450–1700', History and Theory, Vol. 5, No. 2 (1966), p. 150