The meeting of Rodolfo Funari (Universität Dresden), author – among the other works – of the three corpora of the Latin historian’s papyri (Sallust, Livy, and the adespota), and Arturo De Vivo (Università degli Studi di Napoli ‘Federico II’), raffinate interpreter and scholar working on Latin historiography, is a fruitful occasion in which similar but divergent competences and perspective join together in order to highlight the complexity of the textual transmission of fragments of Latin historians and give new methodological keys.