Supplement to the Anecdotes of Some Distinguished Persons (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1797. Excerpt: ... Could this MS. be recovered, what a resource would it prove to any one who should write tha history of this illustrious Pontificate PALINGENIUS. THE Author of the celebrated Latin Poeft; Zediacus Vita, that goes under the name of Palingenius, was Manzoli. He died about the year 1530. He is supposed to have been a Protestant, and was one of the many learned men of his time, who, having embraced the opinions of Luther, found protection at the Court of the Duchess of Ferrara. By his frequent allusions to physic throughout the Poem, and the continual abuse of the ignorant and the mercenary practitioners of that divine art, he appears either to have prosesied it himself, or to have susfered extremely from the abuse of it. Many passages in the Poem are very fine. The speech of the old man who has mis-spent his youth in idleness and in pleasure, in the ninth book, is extremely strong and pathetic. ysum scrier atas Sentiet ingenium, fumam rent, memhra perijji Exiguo mtllxs gusttt et duke dine inani. '7anc iicrttm ut multi dices, V tempora pulchra uam mate, vos no-vi quo fugijlii miscrum me Vhen coming age shall set before your eyes Talents and fortune, health and reputation, For empty pleasures, appetites indulged, Groveling and low, for ever gone and lost Will you not say, as many more have said, Oh Time, for knowledge and improvement given, How ill entploy'd Oh whither are you sled? Ah, never to return Wretch that I am I Ignorant and interested Physicians he calls Carnifices bominum sub banejio nomine fiunt. Mankind's sell butchers with a nobler name. He then addresses the Princes of his time to x'A the world of these pests of society: Vos quibus imperium eji, gut mundifreena tenelis Ne tantum tolerate nefas, bunc toltite pestem Conftdite Humano g...