Scholarly Works
Barbaro edited and translated a number of classical works: Aristotle's Ethics and Politics (1474); Aristotle's Rhetorica (1479);Themistius's Paraphrases of certain works of Aristotle (1481);Castigationes in Pomponium Melam (1493).
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. In this discussion of Pliny's Natural History Barbaro made 5000 corrections to the text. The work was written in only twenty months and dedicated to the newly-elected Pope Alexander VI. 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. Erasmus frequently cited Barbaro's works, often with respect.
His letters to Giovanni Pico were also widely circulated. Much of his work was published after his death: In Dioscuridem Corelari, a work on Dioscorides, in 1510, his translations of Aristotle in 1544, and Compendium Scientae Naturalis in 1545.
Barbaro's work De Officio Legati was representative of a revolution in the conduct of diplomacy which took place during the Renaissance.
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