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318] Promisisti te Amici igitur tui satisfacias Iteriim vale. 2, Peutunger] of Augsburg (15 Oct. 1465—28 Dec. 1547). He went to Italy in 1482 to study law, and visited Padua, Bologna, Florence, and Rome. In 1490 he entered the service of Augsburg, and in 1497 was appointed town-clerk; the missions which he discharged in this capacity and in the service of the Swabian League in all directions—to Rome 1491, to Vienna 1506, to the Netherlands 1513 and 1520—enabled him to pursue the study of archaeology by collecting coins, MSS., &c. His Romanae vetustatis Fragmenta in Augusta Vindelicorum et eius diocesi, Augsburg, Ratdolt, 1505, was the first attempt to deal with Roman inscriptions in Germany; and he is also eredited by Zasius with a profound knowledge of Roman law. He was made an Imperial Councillor by Maximilian, to whom he was much attached, and the construction of whose memorial at Innsbruck he subsequently superintended. In 1534 he resigned his appointment as townclerk and gave himself wholly to his studies, in which throughout his life he was assisted by his gifted wife Margaret. Some portions of his library and collections still exist in the libraries of Augsburg and Munich. See ADB. The famous map which pears his name was bequeathed by him to Celtis. His acquaintance with Beatus Rhenanus had perhaps begun already in 1510 (BRE. 18) ; and in 1513 he dedicated to Beatus an edition of Paulus Cortesius in Sententias (BRE. 33). 19. Ioannis] John Kuno (Conon) of Nuremberg (c. 1463—21 Feb. 1513), @ learned Dominican, who studied under Aldus and John of Crete at Venice, and under Marcus Musurus and Scipio Carteromachus at Padua. In 1505 he was sent by Aldus to request Maximilian’s patronage for the Neacademia (AE, 50 ; cf. a letter of Aldus in Archivio Veneto, xxi, 1881, p. 269). He became an eminent Greek scholar, and in 1507 published at Padua à translation of Basils De differentia oùoias Kal vroordcews, dedicated to Jodocus Gallus (cf. CPR. p. 60). In 1511 or perhaps earlier he came to Basle and worked for Amorbach’s press, helping with Jerome (Ep. 335.305 seq.); and teaching his sons Bruno and Boniface, who were
