TO THE READERS.

a 4

Ornamental drop cap 'A' featuring interlaced vines and stylized floral motifs within a square frame.Having for a long time
experienced how little e-
steem is usually held for
translators, commentators,
restorers of
corrupted books, Renaissance scholars who edited and corrected ancient manuscripts were often called "restorers." and others who are sub-
ject to following the tracks of others, and
seeing the cold reward they re-
ceive for such labors, no matter what per-
fection there may be, I had (so it
seemed to me) entirely resolved never
to employ myself in such things again, loving far more
to keep myself in free and frank study,
which pleased me, and to produce a work that could
better be called my own, rather than being con-
strained by such toil, hardly daring, e-
ven afterward, to call what came out of it
mine. I now let go to you
the Philosophy of Love original: "Philosophie d’Amour," referring to Leone Ebreo’s "Dialoghi d'amore." by Master Leon
Hebrew Judah Leon Abravanel, known as Leone Ebreo (c. 1460–1535), was a Jewish philosopher and physician whose Neoplatonic dialogues on love became a cornerstone of Renaissance thought.: which you would have had sooner,
and which I would have shown you a
long time ago, had it not been that, when I wanted to
have it put to the Press, I was informed
that there was another translation, already