id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-768 Marcus Cornelius Fronto - Wikipedia .html text/html 2146 255 64 In that year, Angelo Mai discovered in the Ambrosian library at Milan a palimpsest manuscript, on which had been originally written some of Fronto's letters to his imperial pupils and their replies; four years later Mai found several more sheets from this manuscript in the Vatican. These fragments disappointed Romantic scholars as not matching the writer's great reputation, partly because Fronto's teachings, with their emphasis on studying ancient writers in search of striking words, were not in accordance with current fashion (Italy, where not only Mai but Leopardi enthused over them, was an exception), partly because they gave no support to the assumption that Fronto had been a wise counsellor to Marcus Aurelius (indeed, they contain no trace of political advice), partly because his frequent complaints about ill-health, especially those collected in book 5 of Ad M. The Loeb Classical Library printed an edition of Fronto's correspondence with a facing English translation by C. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-768.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-768.txt