To the Reader.

...the greatest philosopher, and therefore the greatest Divine original: "Divine"; here meaning a theologian or someone deeply skilled in the study of God and sacred things.

* Hannibal Rosselli of Calabria Hannibal Rosselli (1525–1593) was a Franciscan friar from Calabria who wrote a famous, massive five-volume commentary on the works of Hermes Trismegistus.

Read this following book with understanding (and for your help, you may make use of that extensive commentary written upon it); then it will speak more for its author than can be spoken by any man—at least by me.