DEDICATION

Art has no greater enemy than the one who does not master, know, or understand it. And although this can be said and reported in general original: "in genere" of every art—namely, that every art has its own particular despisers, enviers, and haters, and nothing in the entire world can be conceived, made, explored, perfected, spoken, or written so perfectly, so skillfully, so elegantly, and so excellently that one does not always find Momuses, cavillers, calumniators, Zoili original: "Momos, Cauillatores, Calumniatores, Zoilos." These are classical archetypes of critics: Momus was the Greek god of mockery; Zoilus was a Greek grammarian known for his harsh attacks on Homer., and more such vermin who mock, slander, disdain, nullify, and belittle everything. Yet this is true in particular original: "in specie" primarily of the noble, secret—indeed, much more—