the Bible; to form a collection of all the monuments and acts of the history of the popes. These diverse undertakings consumed his energies and filled his notebooks, but without profit to scholarship. His notes and collations have been used by various editors. Holstenius died on 2 February 1661 in Rome. Works The principal works that Holstenius actually published are notes on Cluvier's Italia antiqua (1624); an edition of portions of Porphyry (1630), with a dissertation on his life and writings; notes on Eusebius Against Hierocles (1628), on the Sayings of the later Pythagoreans (1638), and the De diis et mundo of the neo-Platonist Sallustius (1638); an edition of Arrian's treatise on the Chase (1644), and the Codex regularum monasticarum, a collection of monastic rules (1661). This last included in an appendix the first printing of the De admonitio ad filium spiritualem. He also rediscovered and edited for the first time the Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum, a collection of ancient Roman chancery formulae used in the administration of the Roman Church (1660), but this edition, however, was immediately suppressed by Alexander VII. Holstenius is also important as the first to locate Horace's fanum Vacunae (the shrine of Vacuna, mentioned in Epistles 1.10.49) as that of Victoria in Roccagiovine following the discovery there of an inscription commemorating Vespasian's restoration of the shrine of Victoria. After his death there were published from his papers collections of synods and ecclesiastical monuments, the Collectio romana bipartita (1662), also the acts of the martyrs Perpetua and Felicitas; Boniface; Tarachus, Probus and Andronicus (1663); Notae et castigationes in Stephan Byzantini ethnica (1684). References Holstenius's correspondence (Epistolae ad diversos, ed. J.F. Boissonade, 1817), a valuable source of information on the literary history of his time Nicolaus Wilckens, Leben des gelehrten Lucae Holstenii (Hamburg, 1723) Johann Möller, Cimbria literata, iii. (1744). Alfonso Mirto, Lucas Holstenius e la corte medicea. Carteggio (1629-1660), Firenze, Leo S. Olschki, 1999 Specific Attribution 1596 births 1661 deaths Converts to Roman Catholicism German Renaissance humanists 17th-century German Catholic theologians Leiden University alumni Writers from Hamburg German male non-fiction writers German librarians 17th-century German writers 17th-century German male writers