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581] 557 581. Deventer MS. 91, f. 114. LB. App. 138. [The date is unquestionable. From BEATUS RHENANUS. Basle. 10 May 1517. For many of the topics mentioned cf. Ep. 575.] BEATVS RHENANVS ERASMO ROTERODA, S. P. Cym accepissem Ioannem Wilerium, ciuem Basiliensem in Anglia natum, ex patre tamen Germano, Hantwerpiam profecturum, non potui committere vt meis ad te vacuus litteris discederet. Nam quod proximis litteris ambigue ad te perscripsi, nunc certius aliquanto eloquar. Imprimitur Chrisosto(m)us minutis illis formulis, idque 5 gemino praelo. Praeter(e)a De Homine Galeotti Narniensis opusculum duobus itidem praelis cuditur. Aluari Solennis Compilatio (sic videtur) in spongiam incubuit. Expectantur indies magni tuarum lucubrationum fasces; qui vt primum adlati fuerint, omnibus posthabitis nihil nisi Erasmicum Frobenniana cudet officina. Mirantur te to Berum vt scriberet. Monui Doluimus omnes iam tercio Si illis insanire 15 erga tuos labores se gratum fore. 1. Wilerium] Mentioned in BRE. 124,5 as lending money to Beatus in 1519; cf. also BRE. 143. 6. Galeotti] Galeozzo Marzio (c. 14271497), of Narni in Umbria, was a pupil of Guarino at Ferrara 1447-50. Till 1460 he taught classics and medicine at Padua; and then made use of his acquaintance with Janus Pannonius, a fellow-pupil under Guarino and now Bp. of Fiinfkirchen, to seek his fortune in Hungary. Till 1473 he enjoyed the patronage of Matthias Corvinus and various prelates; but on returning to Italy was imprisoned in 1477-8 on a charge of heresy in his De vulgo incognitis, written in 1476-7. His later writings—De dictis et factis Matthiae Coruimi, c. 1485, first published in 1563 at Vienna; De doctrina promiscua, 1489, dedicated to Lorenzo dei Medici ; De excellentibus, 1492, dedicated to Charles vare —indicate the directions in which he sought for patronage. He died in Bohemia, : See E. Abel in Ungarische Revue, 1881, pp. 29-42; and Voigt. In his De Homine, written c. 1471 (Venice, Jenson, c. 1471: Copinger 2621) and dedicated to John Vitez, Abp. of Gran, the various parts of the body are enumerated and Latin synonyms given. Froben’s edition of May 1517 was perhaps reprinted from a Turin edition of 1517 (Panzer). 8. in spongiam] Of. Suet. Aug. 85. 12. Rectorem] Capito was elected Rector 1 May 1517 for the ensuing half-year. 14. male feriatos] Cf, Hor. C. 4.6. 14. 15. nouis] Bücking dates the first edition of the second part early in 1517: but attempts no precision. 17. litteris] Ep. 575. 19. Augustini] Evidently there was a proposal to revise John Amorbach’s edition of 1506; but nothing came of it at this time, with either Froben or Koberger. The Froben firm published a complete edition of Augustine, revised by Erasmus, in 1528-9 in ro vols.
