Abstract: (Textual Journey in the 16th century. Imitation, Writing and Rewriting between the two Shores of the Adriatic) The aim of this paper is to investigate the interplay between two texts which travelled between the geographical borders of the Adriatic Sea, in the second half of the sixteenth century. The only published text by the Ragusan noblewoman Maria Gondola - a dedicatory epistle of the book written by her husband, Nicolò Vito di Gozze, Discorsi sopra le Methoere d’Aristotle (1584) is the text which partially was rewritten from two sources, Trattato dell’honor vero e del vero dishonour (1567) written by Sicilian Girolamo Camerata, and Antonio de Guevara’s Libro di Marco Aurelio (1568). This paper will focus on how and why she reworked the text written by her contemporary Girolamo Camerata, who was almost unknown at the time, by concentrating on the rewritten passages. This dedicatory epistle opens important ways for questioning the status of the author, and the concepts of early modern authorship in connection with imitatio, rewriting and plagiarism in the late sixteenth century. It ‘might provide us with useful data to understand how texts and ideas travelled between the different geographical areas, and within the contest of Italian literature and culture.