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I rely primarily on six sources to identify, to the extent possible, the real names behind the pseudonyms in Eudemia. Two keys to the work have been published: Christian GryphiusGryphius, Christian’s Apparatus sive dissertatio isagogica de scriptoribus historiam seculi XVII illustrantibus (1710: 490–5) and Fernand DrujonDrujon, Fernand’s Les livres à clef (1888: 1052–7).1 Other sources for identifications are Luigi GerboniGerboni, Luigi’s Un umanista nel Seicento (1899: 131–3) and Luisella GiachinoGiachino, Luisella’s “CiceroCicero, Marcus Tullius libertinus” (2002: 185–215). Jozef IJsewijnIJsewijn identified a number of names in his notes that accompany the 1998 online version of Eudemia housed on the University of Kentucky’s website.2

In addition, I consulted two manuscript keys. “Clavis et index in Eudemiam,” which I identified in Harvard University’s Houghton Library archives, is in Gabriel NaudéNaudé, Gabriel’s hand and accompanies the 1637 Eudemiae libri VIII; “Chiave dell’Eudemia del Signor Gio. Vittorio De RossiRossi, Gian Vittorio” is sewn into a British Library copy of Eudemiae libri decem.3 Another key was apparently composed by Jean-Jacques BouchardBouchard, Jean-Jacques, which Rossi’s contemporary Cassiano Dal PozzoDal Pozzo, Cassiano mentions in his Memoriale romano,4 while a fourth was to be drafted by the Italian author Angelico AprosioAprosio, Angelico.5 Unfortunately, I have found no trace of either of these two last keys.

Where discrepancies occur among the existing keys and scholarly sources, I took the further step of consulting RossiRossi, Gian Vittorio’s Pinacotheca, since a significant number of the characters in Eudemia were also the subjects of his biographies. Identifications not gleaned from any of the existing keys and sources, and unique to this edition, are based on the similarities of the pseudonyms to names of real people, as well as on my own research. Examples of these are Giovanni Battista TamantiniTamantini, Giovanni Battista for ThaumantinusThaumantinus (Giovanni Battista Tamantini), Margherita CostaCosta, Margherita for PleuraPleura (Margherita Costa) (who also appears in Pinacotheca), and Francesco BarberiniBarberini, Francesco for the animal-loving Dynast BibulusBibulus (Francesco Barberini?). In addition, I identify a number of physical locations in Rome that do not appear in any of the sources, such as the Villa Peretti-Montalto for the Placidiani Gardens, the Villa Farnesina for a sumptuous villa on the banks of the river, and the Villa Borghese for the site of a May Day picnic (these latter two in Book Ten).

Fig. 5:

“Clavis et index in Eudemiam.” MS Lat 306.1, Houghton Library, Harvard University.

Fig. 6:

“Chiave dell’Eudemia del Signor Gio.Vittorio de RossiRossi, Gian Vittorio” sewn into Iani Nicii Erythraei Eudemiae libri decem (1645) © British Library Board, 12410.aa.16.