Writers on Agriculture, Volume I

He voluntarily offered me his own annotations on the rural books of Palladius, which I did not hesitate to accept on the condition that whatever I found noted, corrected, or conjectured—truly, probably, or entirely ingeniously—in the papers of that most learned man, I would record all of it in my own Annotations and return the observation to its own place, so that the reader might not be distracted and overwhelmed again by the variety of readings to be repeated from many places, as I had previously complained had been done in the Gesnerian Edition. Truly, I was finally able to refer the first part of the papers themselves, once excerpted, into the Commentaries. The other part was brought to me much later, when the typesetters had already begun to toil over Palladius. Therefore, I was forced to place the remaining annotations of the learned man with the Corrections and Additions original: "Corrigendis et Addendis" in a less suitable place after the Commentaries. While I give him the greatest thanks that I can here publicly, I wish that I could at the same time achieve my prayers, that a kinder fate might smile upon a friend who was suddenly cast down from his status by a serious misfortune, restore his former tranquility of mind, and return his erudition again to that place where it can be seen by many and decorated with the rewards it deserves!