«Se le lettere fussero alate come son le parole a detta di Omero». Giovan Battista Strozzi il Giovane e la cultura letteraria di Federico Borromeo

[Autom. eng. transl.] The essay introduces the correspondence between Cardinal Federico Borromeo, founder of the Ambrosian Library, and the writer from Florence, Giovan Battista Strozzi the Younger. The letters, about a hundred or so, in addition to the more usual themes of circumstance, touch on subjects of a linguistic nature - the Tuscan was a referent of Frederick for vulgar grammar - and literary, in particular concerning the theory of the heroic poem. On this subject they proposed reflections both on the learned cardinal, within some of his programmatic writings, and on the Florentine man of letters, close to the taxi ranks and author of a broken poem on the theme of the discovery of America.