The paper offers the first Italian translation of the Greek preface by Adrien Tournebus
to his Sophocles edition (1553). Reading afresh this text, one can appreciate
the hitherto undervalued turning point in the philological method of the Breton
humanist, originated by his approach to a Sophoclean manuscript (Paris. Gr. 2711)
drawn up according to Triclinius’ editorial technique and provided with his
metrical scholia.
