Reliable Accounts of the Most Eminent Writers from the Beginning of the World to 1500

aside from various other circumstances, which I do not wish to burden the reader by recounting, has been delayed until now due to the difficulties I encountered in executing the work according to the plan I set for myself.

This difficulty manifested itself throughout this entire part, but primarily regarding the scholastic medieval academic periods, and stemmed from the scarcity of some of the books required for the work, and especially from the lack of editions of the cited writers. This made the examination of one