TO THE NOBLE AND GOOD

HOPES OF ADOLESCENCE: ADAM, SEBASTIAN, SIXTUS, HENRICH, [AND] JOHN,

Sons of Henricus Petri, brothers by blood, and his own most beloved kinsmen,

MARCUS HOPPERUS

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SINCE I understand that this plan of mine has not yet incurred any reproach, my most beloved kinsmen—by which, some years ago, your father, through his own industry and care for fostering studies of the better Letters, saw to it that these syngrapheis writers/authors of worldly wisdom were brought to light joined together in the same volume—it certainly seemed right to him, even now, that they should not be separated, but rather that others should be added to them as well.

NATIONAL LIBRARY OF ROME VITTORIO EMANUELE