Marianne Pade is professor of Classical Philology at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and editor of the Danish Royal Academy for Sciences and Letters. She earned her PhD at the University of Copenhagen and has later worked at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Munich) and the Institut für Geistesgeschichte des Humanismus (LMU, Munich). Additionally, she was for eight years director of the Danish Academy at Rome. She is the author of about 200 scholarly articles, monographs and edited volumes. Her central research fields are humanist Latin translation from the Greek, and Early Modern Latin.