Secret of Secrets

as Aristotle’s. Among whom are Michael Angelus Blondus in his Physiognomy, Bartholomeus Moles in his treatise on Preserving Health, Bartholomeus Cocles in his Anastasis, Agostino Nifo in his physiognomic tables, Alexander Achillinus while he contends on the subject of Physiognomy and Chiromancy, Christoforus Marcellus when he treats of the soul in his second book, Michael Scotus in his question on the nature of the Sun and the Moon, the expositor of Boethius on Consolation and Discipline of Scholars, Arnaldus de Villanova in his treatise On the Regimen of the Elderly, Cardinal Ferdinandus Poncectus while he acts on the poisons of the first book, first treatise, Petrus Apponensis, then in the 123rd and 155th difference of his Conciliator (although in the 142nd he cites it as written to Aristotle), and then also very frequently in his treatise on Physiognomy, Albertus Magnus also in the first [book] of Animals, treatise 2, and finally Petrus Bonus in his Precious Margarita very often, yet more clearly while he says: and although some say this book was not Aristotle’s since it does not smell of his eloquence as in his natural [works] and in his Metaphysics, nevertheless because fame testifies that it was his, and because the matter of the book is more narrative, and because we find his authorities of this book alle-