Keywords

• This article presents three of Arnaldo Momiglianoâ€
• ™
• s letters in the authorâ€
• ™
• s possession.
• All concern Momiglianoâ€
• ™
• s responses to criticism
• and taken together they show his openness to criticism candidly offered within the context of friendly relations. They also reveal his impatience with indirect
• insensitive
• or ill informed criticism
• as well as certain problems that arose from incomprehension (as in the case of Ronald Syme). The first letter was addressed to the author
• the second to Professor Christopher Jones (now at Harvard
• formerly at Toronto)
• and the third to Professor Sir Fergus Millar (Oxford). Jones entrusted the second letter for publication
• and a copy of the third was given to the author by Momigliano himself