_ 507 Geograph._ Lib. XIII.
508 Lib. II. Ep. 8.
_ 509 Noct. Attic._ Lib. II. c. 14. _et passim_.
_ 510 Ibid._ Lib. XX. c. 6.
_ 511 Noct. Attic._ Lib. III. c. 10.
512 Tacit. _Annal._ Lib. XV. c. 38–41.
513 Joann. Sarisberiensis, _De Nug. Curial._ Lib. VIII. c. 19.
Lursenius, _Dissert. De Bibliothecis Veterum_, p. 297.
514 Sulp. Severus, _De Martini Vita_, c. 16.
_ 515 Epist._ XVIII. _Opera_.
516 Cassiodor. _Opera_.
517 Petit-Radel, _Recherches sur les Biblioth. Anciennes_.
_ 518 Stor. dell Letter. Ital._ Part I. Lib. I.
_ 519 Bibliotheca Latin._
_ 520 De Nug. Cur._ Lib. VIII. c. 19.
_ 521 Ibid._ Lib. II. c. 26.
522 Tom. I.
_ 523 De Historicis Latinis_, Lib. I, c. 19.
_ 524 Hist. Critic. Philosoph._ Tom. III.
_ 525 Stor. dell Letterat. Ital._ Tom. III. Lib. II. c. 2.
_ 526 Dict. Histor._ Art. GREGOIRE.
_ 527 Vicende della Letteratura_, Lib. I. c. 3.
_ 528 Hist. Litter. d’Italie_, Tom. I. c. 2.
529 Bayle, _Diction. Histor._ Art. GREGOIRE. Rem. M. Gibbon’s _Decline
and Fall of the Rom. Emp._ c. 45.
530 Muratori, _Antiquitates Italiæ Med. Ævi_. Tom. III. p. 853. ed.
Milan, 1741.
531 Tiraboschi, _Stor. dell. Letterat. Ital._ Tom. III. Lib. II.
_ 532 Ibid._
533 Petit-Radel, _Recherches sur les Biblioth. Anciennes_, p. 53.
534 Eichhorn, _Litterargeschichte_, ed. Gotting. 1812.
535 Lupi, _Epist._ 103. dated 855.
536 Ibid. Ep. 91.
537 Epist. 69.
538 Ginguené, _Hist. Litt. d’Italie_, Tom. I. p. 63.
539 Ziegel, _Hist. Rei Liter._ Tom. I. _Hist. Liter. de la France_, Tom.
IV.
540 Hallam’s _State of Europe during the Middle Ages_, Vol. III. p. 332,
2d ed.
_ 541 Annali d’Italia_, Ad. Ann. 899, &c.
_ 542 Epist._ 130.
_ 543 Epist._ 44.
_ 544 Antiquitates Italiæ Med. Ævi_, Tom. III. p. 818. The most valuable
books of the Bobbian collection were transferred, in the seventeenth
century, by the Cardinal Borromeo, to the Ambrosian library at
Milan; and it is from the Bobbian Palimpsesti there discovered, that
Mai has recently edited his fragments of orations of Cicero, and
plays of Plautus.
545 Mehus, _Vita Ambrosii Camaldulensis_, p. 157. ed. Florent. 1759.
_ 546 Ibid._ p. 183.
547 Petrarc. _Epist. ad M. Varronem_.
548 Mill’s _Travels of Theodore Ducas_, Vol. I. p. 28.
_ 549 Vita Ambrosii Camaldulensis_, p. 290.
_ 550 Ibid._ p. 291.
_ 551 Ibid._ p. 335.
552 Roscoe’s _Life of Lorenzo de Medici_, c. 1.
_ 553 Epist._ Lib. V.
554 Morhoff, _Polyhistor_. Lib. I. c. 7. Lomeierus, _De Bibliothecis_,
c. 9. § 2.
555 Ap. Mehus, _Pref. ad Epist. Ambros. Camaldulensis_, p. 33. ed.
Florent. 1759.
556 Ibid. p. 31.
557 Ibid. p. 50.
558 Ibid. p. 44.
559 Ibid. p. 31.
560 Roscoe’s _Life of Lorenzo de Medici_, c. 1.
561 Mehus, _Pref._ p. 67.
562 Avogradi, _De Magnificentiâ Cosmi Medices_, Lib. II.
“O mira in tectis bibliotheca tuis!
Nunc legis altisoni sparsim pia scripta Maronis,
Nunc ea quæ Cicero ——” &c.
563 Roscoe, _Life of Lorenzo_, c. 7.
_ 564 Polit. Epist._ Lib. IV. Ep. 2.
_ 565 Travels of Theod. Ducas_, c. 1.
566 Berrington, _Literary Hist. of the Middle Ages_, Book VI.
_ 567 Polyhistor_. Lib. IV. c. 10.
_ 568 De Luxurie Veterum Poet. Lat._
569 Eichhorn, _Litterargeschichte_, Tom. III. p. 569.
570 Evelyn’s _Memoirs and Corresp._ Vol. II. p. 173. Second ed.
571 Morhoff, _Polyhistor_. Lib. IV. c. 11.
572 Thuanus, _Hist._ Lib. LXXXIV.
_ 573 Handbuch__ der Classisch. Litteratur._ T. III. p. 31.
574 Osannus, _Analecta Critica_, c. 8.
_ 575 Præf. ad Plautum_, ed. Lambini.
_ 576 Epist. Famil._ Lib. V.
577 Bandini, _Catalog. Cod. Lat. Bibliothecæ Mediceæ-Laurentianæ_, Tom.
II. p. 243, &c.
578 Mehus, _Pref. ad Epist. Ambros. Camaldul._ p. 41.
579 Ibid.
_ 580 Ambros. Camaldul. Epist._ Lib. VIII. Ep. 31.
581 Harles, _Supplement. ad Not. Literat. Rom._ Tom. II. p. 483.
582 Renouard, _Hist. de l’Imprim. des Aldes_. Tom. I. p. 162.
583 Muretus, in a letter dated about this time, (1581,) and addressed to
his friend Paullus Sacratus, mentions, in the strongest terms of
regret and resentment, that a Plautus, on the correction and
emendation of which he had bestowed the labour and study of
twenty-five years of his life, had been stolen from him by some
person whom he admitted to his library. (_Epist._ Lib. III. Ep. 28.)
_ 584 Don Juan_.
585 Maffei, _Traduttori Italiani_, p. 8. Ed. Venez. 1720.
586 Ibid. 70.
587 Paitoni, _Biblioteca degli autor. Lat. Volgarizzati_, Tom. III. p.
118.
_ 588 Curiosities of Literature_, Vol, I. New series.
_ 589 Journal Historique_. Amsterdam, 1719.
_ 590 Bib. Lat._ Lib. I. c. 1. § 8.
_ 591 Pref._ to Johnson and Steevens’ _Shakspeare_, p. 96. 3d Ed.
592 Vol. I. p. 370.
593 Boswell’s _Tour to the Hebrides_.
594 Ginguené, _Hist. Lit. d’Italie_, Tom. II. p. 290.
_ 595 Bib. Lat._ Lib. I. c. 3. § 4.
596 Polit. _Epist._
597 Bandini, _Catalog. Bib. Med. Laurent._ p. 264. Hawkin’s _Inquiry
into Lat. Poet._ p. 200.
598 Dibdin, _Bibliotheca Spenceriana_, Tom. II.
_ 599 Minerva, o Giornal. de Letter. d’Ital._
600 Argelati, _Biblioteca de Volgarizzatori_, Tom. IV. p. 44.
601 Renouard, _Hist. de l’Imprim. des Aldes_, Tom. I.
_ 602 De la louange des bons facteurs en Rime_.
603 Sulzer, _Theorie der Schönen Wissensch. Terenz_.
604 Baillet, _Jugemens des Sçavans_.
_ 605 Mem. de Trevoux_, 1721.
606 Goujet, _Bib. Fran._ Tom. IV. p. 436.
_ 607 De Vit. et Carm. Lucret. Præf._
608 See Good’s _Lucretius, Pref._ p. 99. Eichstädt, _De Vit. &c.
Lucret._ p. 65.
609 Lib. XV. c. 2.
610 Barbari, _Epist. I. ad Poggium_.
611 Mehus, _Præf. ad Epist. Ambros. Camaldul._ p. 38.
612 Renouard, _Annales de l’Imprimerie des Aldes_, Tom. I.
_ 613 Biblioth. Franc._ Tom. V.
614 Good’s _Lucretius_, _Preface_.
615 See Goujet, _Bibliotheque Françoise_, Tom. V. p. 18. Fabricius,
however, says, that he does not know who was the author of this
verse translation, and Mr Good, in the preface to his Lucretius,
attributes it to one James Langlois, who, he says, translated not
from the original Latin, but from Marolles’ prose version.
616 Evelyn’s _Memoirs_, Tom. I.
617 Evelyn’s _Memoirs and Correspondence_, Vol. II. p. 102, 2d edit.
618 Spence’s _Anecdotes_, p. 106.
_ 619 Literary Hours_, No. II.
_ 620 Noct. Attic._ Lib. VII. c. 20.
621 Maffei, _Verona Illustrata_, Part II. p. 4.
622 Ibid. Part II. p. 6.
_ 623 Sammtliche Schriften_, Tom. I.
_ 624 Symbol. Epist._ XVI.
625 Part. II. p. 5.
626 P. 477.
627 Brüggemann, _View of the English Editions, Translations, &c. of the
Ancient Latin Authors_.
628 Mehus, _Præf._ p. 50.
_ 629 Epist. Ad Ambrosium Camald._ Ep. 39.
630 Gesner, _Præf._
631 See Maffei, _Verona Illustrata_, Part II. Lib. III.
_ 632 Præf. Pet. Victor. in explicationes, suar. Castig. in Cat. &c._
_ 633 Præf._ p. 20.
_ 634 Epist. Ad Marcel. Cervinum_.
_ 635 Introduct. in Notit. Litt. Rom._
_ 636 Epist._ 104.
637 Warton, _Hist. of English Poetry_, Vol. I. Dissert. II.
638 Fuhrmann, _Handbuch der Classisch. Lit._
639 Dibdin, _Introduction to the Classics_, Vol. II. p. 197.
640 Fabricius, _Bib. Lat._ Lib. I. c. 9.
_ 641 Ibid._
_ 642 Ibid._
643 Villaret, _Hist. de France_, T. XI. p. 121.
644 Stuart’s _Sallust_, Essay II.
_ 645 Epist._ 37.
_ 646 Epist._ 8.
_ 647 Biblioteca degli Volgarizzatori_, Tom. I. p. 206.
648 Villaret, _Hist. de France_, T. XI. p. 121.
649 Plin. _Epist._ Lib. I. Ep. 20.
_ 650 Epist. Famil._ Lib. IX. Ep. 12.
_ 651 Epist._ 87.
652 Tiraboschi, _Stor. dell Lett. Ital._ Tom. IV. Lib. III. c. 5. § 21.
Maffei, _Traduttori Ital._ p. 41.
_ 653 Epist. Ad Vir. Illust._ ep. 2.
654 Mehus, _Vit. Ambros. Camald._ p. 213.
655 Ginguené, _Hist. Lit. d’Italie_, Tom. II. Shepherd’s _Life of
Poggio_. Bandini, _Catal. Codic. Biblioth. Medic. Laurent._ Tom. II.
p. 432.
656 Paitoni, _Bibliotec. degli Autor. Volgarizzati_.
657 Epist. 1.
658 Hallam’s _Europe during the Middle Ages_, Vol. III. p. 524. 3d ed.
659 B. Flavii, _Ital. Illust._ p. 346. ap. Meiners, _Lebenschreibung
Beruhmter manner_, Tom. I. p. 39. Ginguené, _Hist. Lit._ Tom. II.
Pet. Victor, _in Castigat. ad Cicer. post castig. in Paradox._
660 Lemprid. _in Alex. Sev._ c. 29. “Latina cùm legeret, non alia magis
legebat quàm de Officiis Ciceronis et De Republicâ.”
_ 661 Epist. Senil._ Lib. XV. Ep. 1.
662 Clayton’s _History of the House of Medici_, c. 3
_ 663 Vit. Attic._ c. 16.
_ 664 Epist._ 69.
665 Petrarc. _Epist. ad Viros Illust._ Ep. 1.
666 Mehus, _Vit. Ambros. Camald._ p. 214.
667 Fabricius, _Bib. Lat._ Lib. I. c. 8.
668 Pet. Vict. _Epist._
669 Lagomarsini, _ad Poggii Epist._ I. 189.
_ 670 Epist. ad Vir. Illust._ Ep. I.
671 Bandini, _Catalog. Bib. Laurent._ p. 474.
672 Lib. VII.
673 Fuhrmann, _Handbuch der Classisch. Lit._ T. IV. p. 208.
_ 674 Epist._ Lib. II. Ep. 15.
_ 675 Epist._ 69.
676 Tiraboschi, _Stor. dell’ Letterat. Ital._ T. VI. Part I. Lib. I.
677 Beloe, _Anecdotes of Literature and Scarce Books_, Vol. VI. p. 140.
_ 678 Introduct. in Notit. Literat. Roman._ p. 47.
679 Ibid. p. 84.
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