COMM COMMENTARII OMNIBONI LEONI CENI. Rhetoris Præstantissimi, in Marci Tullii Ciceranis Oratorem. Vicentiæ non minus accurate est emendatum, quam diligenter impressum. Anno Salvatoris M.CCCC. LXXVI. &c. This book is printed in the type used by Leonardus of Basil, who about this period exercised the typographical profession at Vicenza. Prefixed is an oration of Leonicenus in praise of eloquence. Quere is this Leonardus of Basil the same person with the Leonardus Achates who was also of Basil, and followed the occupation of printer at Venice in 1472. He seems to have been a most unsettled character, for in 1473 we find him at Padua. In 1474 he printed VITE DI S. PADRI at S. Urso, and in this very year established himself at Vicenza, where he continued till 1490. He was the first who printed at Vicenza. Leoniceni Leoniceni Omniboni Grammatica, and his curious book de versu Heroico, &c. are described in my fourth volume, p. 382, where also is some account of Leonicenus himself. The book above described is in the Bishop of Ely's collection. MELCHIORIS MELCHIORIS GUILANDINI PAPYRUS, -hoc est Commentarius in tria C. Plinii majoris de Papyro Capita; Accessit. Hieronymi Mércurialis repugnantia qua pro Galeno strenue pugnatur. Item, Melchioris Guilandini assertio sententiæ in Galenum a se pronunciatæ. Venetiis. Apud. M. Antonium Ulrum. M. D. LXXII. 4to. This is a curious book, and by no means of common occurrence. It is so spoken of by Clement, V. 9, P. 311. The work is introduced by a long epistle to Baptistą Grimaldus, and is succeeded by the commentary upon the part of Pliny's Natural History relating to the Papyrus, which is replete with curious erudition. This book so excited the curiosity of scholars, that Joseph Scaliger in particular thought it worth while to publish his animadversions upon it, which are to be found at some length in the following work, which will also well repay the attention of curious readers. Jos. JUSTI. SCALIGERI Julii Cæsaris a Burden Filii Opuscula Varia antehac non edita, Parisiis. Apud Hieronymum Drouart sub scuta Solari via Jacobaea. M.DC.X. This latter book is inscribed to Thuanus in a very learned and elaborate preface by Isaac Casaubon. Guilandinus is the Latin name of Wieland. He also published a Latin epistle to Conrad Gesner, printed at Basil. He was very much distinguished by his knowledge of natural history, and undertook on this account various journeys into Greece, and different parts of Asia: he also visited Africa, where he was for some time detained in captivity; escaping from hence he went to Padua, where he was entrusted with the superintendence of the physic garden, in this situation he engaged in bitter literary controversy with Mathiolus. He died at Padua 1589. The book first described was afterwards republished in octavo at Amberg, 1613. A copy of it is in possession of the Right Hon. T. Grenville; the work of Scaliger is in my own collection. SELECTA SELECTA QUÆDAM E XENOPHON- Of the above book I never saw but one copy, De Dictis et Factis Socratis, Lib. 4. Oratio in Agesilaum regem. Apologia Socratis ad Judices. These tracts are introduced by an address bus." In this he makes an apology for not publishing It is a very handsome book, but contains Of Brunellus I find no account. ORATIONES |