Eric Cochrane, Florence in the Forgotten Centuries, 1527-1800: A History of Florence and the Florentines in the Age of the Grand Dukes, University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 118-119, ISBN 9780226115955. URL consultato il 25 agosto 2019.
«Ammirato had read enough of Tacitus as a student to be able to decorate his earliest dialogues with the usual tales about Tiberius and Caligula. He was probably aware of the critical editions just then in the process of emendation and correction by the greatest of all the sixteenth-century textual critics, the Belgian scholar Justus Lipsius. He may even have run across some of the able Italian Tacitists – Paolo Manuzio, Latino Latini, Francesco Benci – who had welcomed Lipsius to Rome, just as Ammirato was passing through on his way to Florence, in 1569. He may have seen the heavily annotated volumes of Lipsius's friend and critic Marc-Antoine Muret, who had been teaching in Rome since 1560. He may have seen some of the preparatory work by the Florentine scholar Curzio Pichena, based on the most ancient of all the manuscript sources, the Mediceus I and II, which were kept just three blocks away in the Laurenziana Library. But it was the Alterati who first had drawn Ammirato's attention to Tacitus as a subject for serious study. In July 1583, Bernardo Davanzati had submitted to the academy the first book of his translation of the Annals; and from then on the academicians, Ammirato included, regularly discussed each succeeding book as it came out, right down through three complete drafts to the final version of the entire Works, dedicated to them in 1599.»