Un'iscrizione greca inedita di Melchiorre Cesarotti al Palazzo del Catajo

In the Catajo Palace at the foot of the Euganean Hills (Battaglia Terme, near Padua), the marquis Tommaso Obizzi (1750–1803) collected a vast group of antiquities in a private Museum, which was highly celebrated among his contemporaries. This collection also included hundreds of Greek and Latin inscriptions, which were later transferred to Vienna with a sizeable part of the collection. Yet, the Catajo Palace still houses a modern inscription in ancient Greek, written on an altar in the family chapel. Thanks to a letter kept at the Public Library in Padova, the author of the text can be identified with the classicist and linguist Melchiorre Cesarotti.