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Text #542

Rudolf AGRICOLA Jr to Ladislaus de BOZKOWICZ
1517
Manuscript sources:
1copy, 18th-century, ZB, Simlerische Sammlung, MS, vol. 3b, No. 112

Prints:
1URSINUS 1517

 

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... Germaniam autem nostram, quam vetusti agrestem totam, recentiores duri coeli et Marti quam Musis amicam magis autumant, quot non viros, quales non animos gignere videmus? An nullus est Erasmus ille Roterodamus quem ursae genuerunt Arctoae? Cuius ne Patria quidem proverbii ignominia caruit. Aurem enim Batavam(?) pro rudi et(?) crasso(?) iudicio usurparunt adagio. An penitendus arcanarum rerum Interpres Capnio? Quid in litteris de te cumprimis, de Bohuslao Domino de Hassenstain, de Augustino Moravo, de Olomutzensi, de Vratislaviensi Episcopis, de Jano Swolski(?) Moravo, de Laurentio Corvino Praeceptore meo, de Ulrico Hutteno, Cunrado Peutingero, Bilibaldo Pirghaimero, Joachimo Vadiano Helvetio, homine multifariam erudito, et ut verbo aperiam, Polyhystore, tuique nominis observantissimo, Beato Rhenano, Jacobo Spiegel, Nicolao Gerbellio, Petreio Aperbaccho, Mutiano Rufo, Eobano Hesso, Henrico Glareano (Helveto), Ioanne Dantisco, Pierio Graeco maximi ingenii viro, Ioanne Cuspiniano, Georgio Collimitio Litterarum et Mathematicae gnarissimo, Archiatro, Christophoro Crasso Helvetio, Philippo Gundelio Boio, Urbano Rhegio, aliisque innumeris viris, quorum nomenclatura iustum opus pareret, iudicemus? An non omnia ingenio, elegantia, doctrina, iudicio, labore diligentiaque horum hominum monimenta insignia sunt? At Romani non sunt, Itali non sunt, minus ergo eruditi, minus elegantes? ...