P R A E F A T I O.

* Here the Duke of Genoa is called Petrus Fulgosus by Uberto Folieta in books 10 and 11 of the History of Genoa; by others he is called Fregosus.

Doctor of Laws: I being for the second time Ducal Vicar of Genoa, Lord Petrus de Campofregoso then acting as Duke of Genoa, in the month of June, 1457.

** This letter exists in John of Salisbury, book 5 of the Policraticus, chapter 1.

On the following page exists a congratulatory letter from the philosopher Plutarch to his pupil Trajan, elevated to the empire.

I knew that you, in your modesty, did not seek the principate, which you have nonetheless always striven to deserve through the elegance of your character; indeed, you are judged the more worthy of it the more remote you appear to be from the crime of ambition. I therefore congratulate your virtue and my own fortune, if you govern rightly, as you have well earned. Otherwise, I do not doubt that you will be exposed to dangers, and myself to the tongues of detractors, since Rome does not tolerate the cowardice of Emperors, and public discourse is accustomed to blame the faults of students upon their teachers. Thus, Seneca is deservedly bitten by the tongues of those who disparage his Nero, of young men, etc.

This letter is followed by three ancient inscriptions, the first of which is of the same script in which the Prologues and the text of Justin were written; the second and third were added by the one who, at the beginning of the codex, added the testimony of Martinus Polonus concerning Justin:

Readings on the most ancient marble of Nepi.