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vicinity to the countries infected with heresy, and particularly with the pabulum of all opinion — books. The first of these appeared at Venice: it was short; and I have given from a work of Vergerio the list copied by him, and which should seem to embrace nearly the whole. The second came from Florence in 1552, and of that no account is extant, to my knowledge at least. The third is issued from Milan, the title of which was — Catalogo del Arcimboldo Arcivesco di Milano. 1554. I owe this information to Schoettgen, who yet had not seen it, and supposes, on insufficient grounds, that it was reprinted by Vergerio.[1] The next, which is our present subject, was a production of Venice, in the same year.
Pietro Paolo Vergerio, whose life may be
- ↑ De Indd. Comment. I. pp. 9, 10. What is to be understood by an Index pointed out by Vergerio, in his dedication to the work, De Idolo Lauretano, dated 1556, as published in the same year, I cannot well conjecture. Certum est hoc ipso anno evulgatum fuisse ab ipso Papatu Mediolani Catalogum, in quo trecenti ejus bostes numeramur, quanquam non omnes adhuc, qui aut Latinè, aut Italicè scripsimus, numeramur, qui verò tantum Germanicè, aut Gallicè scripserunt, fuerunt omissi. Opp. Tubing. 1563, fol. 309 rect. The date may originate in a mistake of IV. for VI., although IV. was at the time generally written in Roman figures IIII. There is a reference to Arcimboldo's Catalogue, quem nuper adornavit, fol. 542.
