MAECENAS, GAIUS

Additional reading No trace of any formal biography of Maecenas survives from antiquity. His literary fragments are collected in R. Avallone (ed.), Mecenate: I Frammenti (1945). A recent biography is J.M. Andre, Mcne, essai de biographie spirituelle (1967). Two older works are R. Schomberg, The Life of Maecenas: With Critical, Historical and Geographical Notes, 2nd ed. (1766), a brief life with useful notes; and H. Richer, Vie de Mcnas, avec des notes historiques et critiques (1746), also brief, with copious reference to contemporary sources.