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

then one will remember that I did not undertake a complete work on all writers, but only on the most eminent among them. Whether the judgment of the learned will agree with my selection, I must await. I have arranged it according to the intention of my book. This was intended primarily for the use of the youth, and this ultimate purpose required that the most general writers be included. Accordingly, I have carefully