Musicae epitome ex Glareani dodecachordo

Since everywhere good letters and all disciplines began to be rescued from squalid barbarism and, not unhappily, to ἀναζωπυρεῖν kindle anew across the whole world: finally, each person in their own field zealously dedicated effort so that something more polished might emerge into the public eye day by day. There was a huge hope that soon good arts and honest disciplines would become known to mankind with great fruit. But behold, beyond everyone’s expectation, the enemy of the human race, the Demon, attacked the world as he usually does, and by introducing dissensions, he threw it into such turmoil that we have almost had to wish for the previous age. Men have emerged in this our time, pernicious destroyers of human affairs