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1540 | BEATUS RHENANUS TO CHARLES V 63 ad sacerdotiorum collationem confugere, ad quae accipienda sectatores disciplinarum cogi, vt ocium literarium tueri queant. Caeterum vt 240 Montioium inscriptione Prouerbiorum honestauit, et Ioannem Coletum, nouae scholae Londini institutorem, libris Copiae duplicis, verborum et rerum, ad quem ludens aliquando dixit se pauperem plane factum emissa vtraque Copia; ita praestantissimum Mecoenatem suum Guilielmum Vuaramum recognitione Hieronymianarum praecipue 245 lucubrationum immortalitati consecrare statuit. Opus Adagiorum, Aldum aemulatus, flagitantibus studiosis Ioannes Frobenius typis suis non infeliciter excuderat; qua arridente aeditione, simul officinae diligentioris celebritate motus Erasmus, quum alterum Prouerbiorum exemplar cum accessione pridem 25° Badio promissum et destinatum, adiunctis aliquot Plutarchi libellis recenter versis, Francisci Piremanni consilio Basileam aberrasse cognouisset, et illic omnes diui Hieronymi lucubrationes sub Frobenianis praelis esse, ipse quoque eodem se contulit, simulans iter ad Vrbem voti soluendi gratia, Nec fuerat vanus rumor. 255 Pridem enim Ioannes Amerbachius absolutis Ambrosii Augustinique libris totum se comparauerat ad castigationem voluminum Hieronymi, vndique conquisitis vetustis exemplaribus, et doctis viris conductis qui Graecas dictiones passim restituerent ; de quorum numero fuit Ioannes Reuchlinus iureconsultus, qui e lexicis vacuas 260 lacunas replere conabatur ; cui successit felicior castigator Ioannes Cono Norimbergensis, instituti Dominicani, qui meliorem viam sequutus, e vestigiis antiquorum codicum ea, quae vel deerant vel erant deprauata, diligenter reponebat. Idque poterat homo propemodum Graece quam Latine doctior, versatus nimirum in optimis 265 autoribus, aliquot annis excellentissimorum in Italia professorum Musuri et Scipionis, quorum ante meminimus, atque Ioannis Cretensis minime poenitendus auditor. Et iam defuncto patre, Bruno et Basilius fili vna cum Ioanne Frobenio Hieronymi informationem aggressi erant, et in Prophetis aliquo vsque progressi. 27° Erasmo nouo hospiti statim in aedes Frobenianas recepto placuit aeditionis nitor, sed inprimis incredibilis fratrum Amerbachiorum in castigando sedulaque diligentia. Ipse ergo siquando consulebatur, 260. Reuchlinus]in July and August 1514. He was a close friend of 1510. Cf. RE. 114 and 118; MHE. i. x. 268. Cretensis] John Rhosus or Gregoropoulos, a native of Crete, where he was a pupil of Aristobulus Apostolius, afterwards Abp. of Monembasia. He came to Italy as a copyist and settled at Venice. Gardthausen, @riech. Palavographie, pp. 326, 7, gives a long list of MSS. copied by him between 1447 and 1500, and Morelli mentions one of Musurus, and worked with the Cretan printers, Nic. Blastus and Zach. Kallierges, to whose edition of the Etymologicon Magnum, Venice, 8 July 1499, he contributed verses. Afterwards he joined Aldus and was one of the chief founders of the Academia. See Legrand (xv°), ii, where some letters to him are printed; and Morelli, Aldi tria scripta, pp. 50-3.
