Library of Samuel Teleki: Part One

II, previously called Aeneas Sylvius Piccolomineus, Leo X, Hadrian VI, and finally in our own memory, Benedict XIV, fostered letters and those who cultivate them with singular zeal; and Etruria, and its capital city, Florence, 1.) Politian. Book IV. Epist. 2. paved the way for the growth of good arts in Europe after Constantinople was captured by the Turks, where the industry of Lorenzo de' Medici in collecting the ancient codices of authors of both languages that survived the barbaric deluge surpassed all the efforts of everyone. Of the Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, it may suffice to commemorate Bessarion, Sadoletus, Bembo, and Baronius, men most eminent in the praise of wisdom and learning; and of the chief ornaments of England, Belgium, France, and Germany, Francis Bacon of Verulam, Hugo Grotius, A. Thuanus, and Ezechiel Spanheim, men born for the glory of their century and nation by the light of their genius, illustrious with the greatest honors, and conspicuous for their supreme erudition; who, although they spent their lives in administering the Republic, yet excelled in every kind of learning in such a way