io8 THE ARTE OR CRAFTE OF RHETHORYKE
57 : 27. " in an other greater worke he declareth it thus briefly : " i. e. t Melanchthon's de Rhetorica (ed. 1 523, Sig. D. 3. a) : " Sunt et mortis prae- conia, ut eorum qui vitam pro patria perdiderunt." M. goes on to discuss this locus for several lines further.
57 : 31. "An epistle that Angele Policiane writeth in his fourth boke of epistels, to James Antiquarie, of [z. e., concerning] Laurence Medices . . . . " May be found in " Illustrium Virorum Epistolas'ab Angelo Politiano partim scriptae, partim collectse," etc., 1526 (not the first edition). (Brit. Mus. copy, press mark 10905. g. i.) Fol. XCa to XCVb [Sig. M ij recto]. Written in answer to inquiries made by "Jacobus Antiquarius" on hearing of the death of Lorenzo. Dated XV. Calend. lunias. MCCCCXCII, In Faesulano Rusculo. The following analysis of the letter precedes :
"Cur tardius responderit causa fuit dolor ex morte Laurentij. Hypo- chondrioru^ dolori febris accessit. De peccatis ad sacerdotem Laure/ztius coTzfitetur. Sacrosanctuw corpus Christi venerabundws suscipit. Filiuw Petru;# hortatwr co^solaturqz^. Politianum alloquitwr. Cu; Pico (quew accersi iusserat) loquitur. Ferrariewsi Hieronymo, qui salutis euw admone- bat, respowdet aduersus mortem interrituw se esse. Extrema vnctione vnctus euangelia sibi Christiq<? passionem recitari postulat. Exoscula^s cruce? naturae satisfacit. Amplissima eius laus enumeratur. In tribus liberis eius Florentinoru;/* spes co#solationesqw<? collocatae sunt, in Petro, loanne, luliano. Petrus pietate in segrotum patrem, in ciues humanitate, vtilitateqw<? administrawdae reipu[blicae] cowmendatur. Laurentij funus non admodu7# magnificum. Prodigia qu^edam enarrantur." See referen- ces to this letter in Symond's Italian Renaissance, I, 523^ ; II, 355, 533.
57 : 3558 : 9. Direct translation.
58: 10 f. This example of Camillus (as well as the next of "the laude of Saynt Peter ") is suggested in M. I, but Cox expands the four lines of M. to some fifty, evidently having recourse directly to Livy for his mate- rials.
59 15. See Livy, History of Rome, Book V, Ch. xlix.
59'.23f. "The author in his greater worke." The reference is again to Melanchthon's De Rhetorica. See ed. 1523, D iv a : " Carolum Caesa- rem laudatur cum hoc agat ordine. Exemplum.
Natales ex Pipino patre, qui primus intulit nomen Christianissmi nom- ini Francorum, avo Martello principe bellica gloria cum nemine necque majorum, necque posteriorw^ conferendo.
^f Educatio, puer sub Petro Pisano meruit \iter\s latinis & graecis. ^[ Adulescentiam in armis egit Tyro sub patre fortissimo viro in Aquitanis, ubi & Sarracenicam linguam didicit. ^ Juvenis regnum adeptus Aquitaniam, Italiam, Sueviam, Saxonas paca-
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