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Where [the text] seemed to be erroneous, we have changed it according to our own judgment, but we have noted in the margin how it was read previously. You will therefore receive, most distinguished Cardinal, both this small gift of an edition and myself, its author, with that kindness with which you are accustomed to receive all those in whom some sign of virtue and goodwill appears.

Your praises are many and illustrious in every kind, but one in particular, as long as literature shall exist, will be proclaimed and carried to the heavens: that you protect, adorn, and enlarge the University of Paris original: "Academiã Pariſiẽſem"; that by your generosity you sustain the studies of many; and finally, that you embrace good and learned men with singular zeal and love.

Because you truly hold Pierre de la Ramée Petrus Ramus (1515–1572), a famous humanist, logician, and educational reformer who was the author's teacher., my teacher, in such high regard, I say that you bind to yourself in perpetuity not only me, but all those throughout the world who love true education—those awakened and assisted by his sleepless labors—and you entice them to love you and honor you with every duty.

I have also some other works, such as, among the rest, a Hebrew grammar worked out by us according to logical principles Martini is referring to his Grammatica Hebraica (1567), which applied Ramist logic to the study of Hebrew., which will be published in your name very soon, if I learn that these present works have not been unwelcome to you.

Farewell. Paris original: "Lutetia", May 1st, 1566.