Abbreviations
| ACAn | Archivio comunale di Ancona |
| ADAn | Archivio diocesano di Ancona |
| ADB | Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie edited by Historische Commission bei der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Vols. 1–56. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot, 1875–1912 (repr. 1967–1971). |
| ADF | Archivio diocesano di Fano |
| ANAn | Archivio notarile di Ancona |
| ANR | Archivio notarile di Recanati |
| APCG | Archivio del Pontificio Collegio Greco di S. Anastasio |
| ASAn | Archivio di Stato di Ancona |
| ASCPs | Archivio Storico del Comune di Pesaro |
| ASF | Archivio di Stato di Fano |
| ASMc | Archivio di Stato di Macerata |
| AST | Archivio di Stato di Torino |
| BAV | Biblioteca apostolica vaticana |
| BH XV–XVI | Bibliographie hellénique des XVe et XVIe siècles ou description raisonnée des ouvrages publiés en grec par des Grecs aux XVe et XVIe siècles, accompagnée de notices biographiques, tables chronologiques, notes, documents et index, edited by Émile Legrand. 4 vols. Paris: Leroux (vols I–II), Maisonneuve (vol. III), Guilmoto (vol. IV), 1885–1906. The final volume was edited by Hubert Pernot. |
| BH XVII | Bibliographie hellénique ou description raisonnée des ouvrages publiés en grec par des Grecs au XVIIe siècle edited by Émile Legrand. 5 vols. Paris: Picard (vols I–IV), Maisonneuve & Guilmoto (vol. V), 1894–1903. |
| BL | British Library, London |
| BnF | Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris |
| BNN | Biblioteca nazionale di Napoli |
| BNVEN | Biblioteca nazionale Vittorio Emanuele, Naples |
| BOPs | Biblioteca Oliveriana Pesaro |
| BPR | Biblioteca del Palacio Real, Madrid |
| BSB | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich |
| CENSUS | Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known to the Renaissance, edited by Arnold Nesselrath et al. Online: <census.de>. |
| CGL | Corpus glossariorum latinorum, edited by Georgius Goetz et al. 7 vols. Leipzig: Teubner, 1888–1923 (repr. Amsterdam: Hakkert, 1965). |
| CIG | Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, edited by August Böckh et al. 5 vols. Berlin: Ex officina academica, 1828–1877. |
| CIL | Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, edited by Theodor Mommsen et al. 17 vols. Berlin: De Gruyter (before 1925 Reimer), 1862–1955. |
| DBI | Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani. Rome: Istituto dell’Enciclopedia Italiana, 1960–. Online: <treccani.it/biografie>. |
| EH | L’Europe des Humanistes (XIVe–XVIIe siècles), edited by Jean-François Maillard et al. Paris: CNRS Editions / Turnhout: Brepols, 1995. |
| FH | La France des Humanistes: Hellénistes, edited by Jean-François Maillard et al. 2 vols. Turnhout: Brepols, 1999–2010. |
| GL | Grammatici Latini, edited by Heinrich Keil. 8 vols. Leipzig: Teubner, 1855–1880 (repr. Hildesheim: Olms, 2007). |
| HAAB | Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar. |
| IG | Inscriptiones Graecae, edited by Adolf Kirchhoff et al. 49 vols. Berlin: Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1873–. |
| IGF | Inscriptions grecques de la France, edited by Jean-Claude Decourt. Lyon: Jean Pouilloux, 2004. |
| IGUR | Inscriptiones Graecae Urbis Romae, edited by Luigi Moretti. 4 vols. Rome: Istituto italiano per la storia antica, 1968–1960. |
| NBF | National Biography of Finland. Online: <kansallisbiografia.fi>. |
| NDB | Neue Deutsche Biographie. Online: <deutsche-biographie.de> |
| PG | Patrologiae cursus completus […] series Graeca, edited by Jacques-Paul Migne. 161 vols. Paris: J.-P. Migne, 1844–1903. |
| RA | Riksarkivet (= Sweden State Archives) |
| SBL | Svenskt biografiskt lexicon. Online: <sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl>. |
| TLA | Tallinna Linnaarhiiv (= Tallinn City Archives) |
| UUL | Uppsala University Library |
| VD16 / VD17 | Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts. Online: <vd16.de>. |
| VD18 | Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des 18. Jahrhunderts. Online: <vd18.de>. |
| VL16 | Frühe Neuzeit in Deutschland 1520–1620. Literaturwissenschaftliches Verfasserlexikon, edited by Wilhelm Kühlmann et al. Berlin/Boston, Mass.: De Gruyter, 2011–. |