Leonardo Montagna: umanista fra gli umanisti

The article explores the relationships between Leonardo Montagna, a minor humanist, and some of the most famous scholars and writers of the time, such as Gian Pietro d’Avenza, Lorenzo Valla, Gian Mario Filelfo, Pomponio Leto, Agostino Maffei, Girolamo Bologni e Giovanni Antonio Panteo. Since no correspondence from Montagna has survived the passage of time, the essay relies on the information that can be obtained directly from the poetry of the author and indirectly from the poems and letters addressed to him by contemporary writers, in order to reconstruct the social and cultural environment of mid-fifteenth-century Verona, a peripheral, but lively, centre of Humanism.