During the fifteenth century the circulation of Pausanias’ Periegesis was limited only to the circles of the most erudite humanists. Moreover, they seemed to be interested in this work above all for historical-mythological questions rather than for its description of the Realien throughout Greece. This could be connected to the absence of a complete Latin translation of the Periegesis, that was missing until the middle of the sixteenth century. Calderini began a first translation in 1477, which however remained incomplete. His work was carried on only much later: the two following complete Latin translations of the Periegesis, one by Löscher and one by Amaseo, date back both to 1550–1551. Between these attempts, Stephanus Niger published the Dialogus ex Pausania de reconditis Graecarum literarum penetralibus (1517), a sort of Latin paraphrase and commentary to Pausanias, which however has been for a long time the only reference work for the versio latina of the Periegesis.