Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder
Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder was a Dutch classical scholar, poet and diplomat. He travelled all over Europe to visit the major libraries and over time collected Europe's largest private library in the field of classical literature. He is regarded as a brilliant text critic in his critical publications of Claudian, Ovid, Vergil, Prudentius, Velleius and Valerius Flaccus.
Portrait of Nicolaas Heinsius the Elder by Willem van Mieris
Title page of Poemata (1653)
Marcus Velleius Paterculus was a Roman historian, soldier and senator. His Roman history, written in a highly rhetorical style, covered the period from the end of the Trojan War to AD 30, but is most useful for the period from the death of Caesar in 44 BC to the death of Augustus in AD 14.
Illustrated title page of the 1520 editio princeps, edited by Beatus Rhenanus
Historia Romana, 1600