 It is often thought that, if the Villa belonged to Piso, it may also have been where Philodemus himself lived and wrote, and that the book-rolls belonged to Philodemus’ own library, partly assembled in Athens before his arrival in Italy, and then increased by his own writings, which were, perhaps, copied in a scriptorium on the premises, as they were composed and, in some cases, recopied later (cf. Cavallo 1983). That at least the philosophical papyri belonged to Philodemus is plausible: but there are some reasons to doubt the rest of this pleasing speculation.