History of the Fungi of the Rimini Territory (1755) - Page 11

To the Most Eminent and Most Reverend Prince

Lord, Lord

JOACHIM PORTOCARRERO

Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church

&c. &c. &c.

GIOVANNI ANTONIO BATTARRA DEDICATES AND CONSECRATES THIS.

A decorative woodcut drop-cap 'Q' depicts a rural landscape featuring a tree, a small building, and a tower.

How slight a gift this is, MOST AMPLIFIED PRINCE, which I now offer to YOUR EMINENCE, no one fails to see. It does not escape me that it would be more appropriate to offer to the unshaken and shining CARDINALS of the Church works that pertain to Religion, Wisdom, or the order of the Republic, rather than those of a humbler subject matter. For those works are worthy of more sublime patrons, under whose shadow they are cherished and thrive.

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