Portrait of Guillaume Budé

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This portrait illustrates how writing in Greek became an integral part of establishing scholarly identity in Europe during the 16th century. The famous French humanist Guillaume Budé notes down a line of Greek from Stobaeus (3.5.18), which reads: "Although it seems good to obtain what one desires, the greatest good is not to desire what one does not need".