History of the Fungi of the Rimini Territory

In your spare hours, if you have any, MOST AMPLIFIED CARDINAL, due to your inclination of mind toward Letters, read what I have written in this little work concerning Fungi. You will learn what should be thought regarding their nature; and since Fungi also boldly enter the tables of Kings, you will understand what diligence in selection and cooking must be maintained. Furthermore, you will learn from the letter of my distinguished teacher, J. Plancus a reference to Giovanni Bianchi, known by his pseudonym Janus Plancus, how those badly troubled by Fungi are to be restored to health, and you will understand other things that pertain to a fuller education on Fungi. And so that I do not detain you, MOST AMPLIFIED CARDINAL, any longer with vain words, I pray and beseech you first that you forgive me if I have been too bold, and then that, by the gift of your beneficence, you receive me into the number of your own, so that I and my little work may always live under your PATRONAGE. Farewell.