and unedifying controverfial tracts, instead of printing older and more folid Authors. Their Their country had invented typography, but these men had fallen away from the great objects of it, and were doing mischief. He wishes they would imitate Aldus, and he afferts his own opinion of the value of claffical learning in these words to his patron. "In hoc enim. omne tuum incumbit ftudium, Princeps optime, ut constitutâ per verbum Dei pietate, veroque Dei cultu erecto, bonis etiam literis apud tuos locus concedatur. Intelligis enim acutè citra harum adminiculum Verbi Divini functionem fincerè administrari non poffe." A remarkable obfervation for the time and place. Haguenoæ au, 1530. Mufurus triumphs in the art of printing as unrivalled by any other invention, mentions Chalcondylas and his friends as the inventors of Greek typography; then Aldus, whose untimely death he deplores, and alludes to the many young Greeks whom Leo X. was educating at Rome; he hopes they will regenerate their native land, and that future tourists will go to verify the topographies of Paufanias at fome happier day when Greece fhall be delivered from the Turkish dynasty. Enough has been faid to indicate the curious points of literary feeling, and the interesting details of literary history which these Prefatory Dedications prefent. Certainly one would hardly have expected that in the Aftronomi Veteres, published after the discovery of America, there fhould not be a word upon the advancement of navigation through their means; and that Jenson should have printed the Rei Rufticæ Scriptores, chiefly as an exhibition of highly antiquated Latin, without a wish that there should be two ears of corn where there was only one before. But that is the moral trait of them all, except Aldus, Froben, and perchance one or two of them more. It is plain that Renouard has read every word of Aldus's Prefaces, and so probably had Ginguené and Sifmondi. Maittaire and Quirini were evidently familiar with their contents, having reprinted confiderable portions of them in their literary works. It remains for the Philobiblon Society to decide whether thefe Prefaces are of fufficient intereft collectively to deferve reproduction, in which cafe I fhall have much pleasure in placing the transcripts at their difpofal; or whether, though a few difciples of Hallam or of Roscoe would feel interested with occafional portions, the whole would not be appreciated fufficiently, even by literary men, to justify the expenditure required for their publication, and the labour attendant upon preparing them for the press. PRÆFATIONES ET EPISTOLÆ. S. Hieronymus in Biblia Latina. Moguntiæ. 1455. fol. Jo. Andreas in Apuleium. Romæ. 1469. fol. rec. in Bibl. Smith. App. LXXII-IX. et Quirini ed. opt. Script. p. 211-221. Jo. Andreas in Cæfarem. Romæ. 1469. fol. rec. in Quirini ed. opt. Script. 146-7 et Bibl. Smith. LXXX. Jo. Andreas in Aulum Gellium. Romæ. 1469. fol. rec. in Quirini ed. opt. Script. 196-206-7-8. Jo. Andreas in Livium. Romæ. 1469. fol. rec. in Bibl. Smith. LXXXII-VII. et Quirini ed. opt. Script. 150-157. Jo. Andreas in Lucanum. Romæ. 1469. fol. rec. in Quirini ed. opt. Script. 171-2. Jo. Andreas in Virgilium. Romæ. 1469. fol. rec. in Quirini ed. opt. Script. 162-4. Campanus in Quintiliani Inftitutiones. Romæ. 1470. fol. rec. in Bibl. Smith. App. LXXXI-II. I. A. Campanus in Suetonium. Romæ. 1470. fol. rec. in Quirini ed. opt. Script. 194. Puteolanus in Ovidium. Bononiæ. 1471. fol. Ludovicus Carbo in Plinii Junioris Epiftolas. Venet. 1471. 4to. B. Girardinus in Aufonium. Venet. 1472. fol. rec. in Maittaire, Ann. Typ. 1. 315. Joannes Andreas in Nicolai de Lyra Gloffam Bibl. Lat. Vulg. Romæ. 1471-2. 5 tom. fol. N. B. Elenchus in Bibl. Spencer I. 160-161, et G. Alexandrinus Merula in Plautum. 1472. fol. rec. in Bibl. Smith. cxvII-cxx. Venet. Alexandrinus Merula in Scriptores de Re Ruftica. Venet. 1472. fol. rec. in Bibl. Smith. cxIII-VII. III. 23. Bibl. Spencer. G. Alexandrinus (Merula) in Martialem. Vindelini Spirenfis. (Venet. 1472.) rec. in Maittaire, Ann. Typ. IV. 308. Sabinus in Ammianum Marcell. Romæ. 1474. fol. rec. in Bibl. Smith. App. cxxxI-II. Domitius Calderinus in III. Quintiliani Declamationes. Romæ. 1475. fol. B. Accurfius Pifanus in Hiftoriæ Auguftæ Scriptores. Mediol. 1475. fol. Fr. Puteolanus in Plinii Jun. Panegyricum. Mediol. 1476. 4to. rec. in Bibl. Smith. cccxIX-XX. Demetrius Cretenfis in Lafcaris Grammaticam Græcam. Mediol. 1476. 4to. rec. in Bibl. Smith. App. CLXIII. M. Beneventanus in Bibl. Spen Daretem Phrygium et Florentiæ. 1478. fol. F. M. Ferrarinus in Valerium Probum. Brix iæ. 1486. 4to. |