Editing Livy (section)

===Later===
[[File:Briosco Titus Livius.jpg|thumb|Titus Livius by [[Andrea Riccio|Andrea Briosco]] ({{circa}} 1567)]]
During the [[Middle Ages]], due to the length of the work, the literate class was already reading summaries rather than the work itself, which was tedious to copy, expensive, and required a lot of storage space. It must have been during this period, if not before, that manuscripts began to be lost without replacement. The [[Renaissance]] was a time of intense revival; the population discovered that Livy's work was being lost and large amounts of money changed hands in the rush to collect Livian manuscripts. The poet [[Antonio Beccadelli (poet)|Beccadelli]] sold a country home for funding to purchase one manuscript copied by [[Poggio Bracciolini|Poggio]].{{Sfn|Foster|1919|p=24}} [[Petrarch]] and [[Pope Nicholas V]] launched a search for the now missing books. [[Lorenzo Valla|Laurentius Valla]] published an amended text initiating the field of Livy scholarship. [[Dante Alighieri|Dante]] speaks highly of him in his poetry, and [[Francis I of France]] commissioned extensive artwork treating Livian themes; [[Niccolò Machiavelli]]'s work on [[republic]]s, the ''[[Discourses on Livy]]'', is presented as a commentary on the ''History of Rome''. Respect for Livy rose to lofty heights. [[Walter Scott]] reports in ''[[Waverley (novel)|Waverley]]'' (1814) as an historical fact that a Scotsman involved in the first Jacobite uprising of 1715 was recaptured (and executed) because, having escaped, he yet lingered near the place of his captivity in "the hope of recovering his favourite ''Titus Livius''".<ref>{{cite book|last=Scott|first=Walter|title=Waverley|title-link=Waverley (novel)|publisher=[[Adam and Charles Black]]|year=1897|location=London|page=570|chapter=6|author-link=Sir Walter Scott|orig-year=1814}}</ref>