"Thanks to its generous support, the research project [...] was able to organize three scholarly events at Humboldt University which laid the ground for the present publication: the international conference 'Italian and Latin Poetry in Ferrara around 1480' (6th-7th.10.2014); the two panels 'Renaissance Transformations of Antiquity: Literary Rewriting in Italy and France I and II', part of the 61st conference of the 'Renaissance Society of America' (26th-28th.3.2015), and the international conference 'Rewriting, Rewritings in Early Modern Italian Literature' (1st-2nd.10.2015)." (Introduction)