Specimen of a Historical and Critical Library of Rare Physical and Medical Books

but have long since reached foreigners as well, and have created great admiration for you among all. What wonder, therefore, that since your famous name has long been known in both the Netherlands, England, France, Sweden, Russia, Hungary, and even in the New World, that Italy also admires your virtues in veneration, and treats you not only as a happy and strenuous investigator of nature, but also provides a public document of its high esteem. For I shall pass over the present epistolary correspondence with the most illustrious men of Italy, the very learned and most expert in all natural history, Joh. Franciscus Seguierius Jean-François Séguier of Verona, Josephi Monti Giuseppe Monti, the most celebrated professor of botany and natural history at Bologna, and others, which you have been accustomed to enjoy for many years: recently, the Florentine Academy of Sciences has published a public document of its piety and respect toward you. For this society, established for the advancement of medical affairs and all natural science, a truly fair judge of good virtues and a fertile nurturer of the most outstanding talents, has acquired great fame for itself—