# Pope Nicholas V

- id: nicholas-v
- dates: 1397–1455
- roles: patron, commissioner

The founding patron of the Vatican Library, who paid humanists to bring the Greek historians into Latin.

## Crossings

- c. 1448–1452: History of the Peloponnesian War into Latin (commissioner) [attested]
- c. 1452–1457: The Histories into Latin (commissioner) [attested]

## Sources

- N. G. Wilson (1992). From Byzantium to Italy: Greek Studies in the Italian Renaissance.