Editing Ermolao Barbaro (section)

==Scholarly works==
Barbaro edited and translated a number of [[Classical antiquity|classical]] works: [[Aristotle]]'s ''Ethics'' and ''Politics'' (1474);<ref name="biet"/> Aristotle's ''Rhetorica'' (1479);<ref name="valer"/><ref name="biet"/>[[Themistius]]'s ''Paraphrases'' of certain works of [[Aristotle]] (1481);<ref name="valer"/><ref name="biet"/>''Castigationes in Pomponium Melam'' (1493).<ref name="valer"/>

His own work, ''De Coelibatu'' was less influential, but Barbaro's ''Castigationes Plinianae'', published in Rome in 1492 by Eucharius Silber, was perhaps his most influential work.<ref name="biet"/> In this discussion of [[Pliny the Elder|Pliny]]'s ''[[Natural History (Pliny)|Natural History]]'' Barbaro made 5000 corrections to the text.<ref name="valer"/> The work was written in only twenty months and dedicated to the newly elected [[Pope Alexander VI]].<ref name="mich"/> ''Castigationes Plinianae'' was considered by Barbaro's contemporaries to be the most authoritative work on Pliny.  Even before his death, he was considered a leading authority on the Greek and Latin works of antiquity. [[Desiderius Erasmus|Erasmus]] frequently cited Barbaro's works, often with respect.<ref name="biet"/>

His letters to [[Giovanni Pico della Mirandola|Giovanni Pico]] were also widely circulated.<ref name="biet"/> Much of his work was published after his death: ''In Dioscuridem Corollarii libri quinque'', a work on [[Pedanius Dioscorides|Dioscorides]], in 1516, his translations of Aristotle in 1544, and ''Compendium Scientiae Naturalis'' in 1545.<ref name="biet"/>

Barbaro's work ''De Officio Legati'' was representative of a revolution in the conduct of diplomacy which took place during the Renaissance.<ref>Garrett Mattingly 'Changing Attitudes Towards the State' in ''Facets of the Renaissance'' 1963), 33</ref>