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558 [1517 Thomas Greyus Anglus nuper Gallos et Britannos incidat. nitidus in Galliam proficiscatur. Adibit te mox e Parisiis vbilibet, Exemplum his inclusum habes. praeceptor. 582. Deventer MS. 91, f. 126. LB. App. 139. events mentioned confirm the date. ] Basle. 11 May 1517. The tui erga 21. Cobergio MS. : . Cobergio] John Koberger (e. 1455— I Mar. 1543), first cousin of Antony Koberger (1440 — 3 Oct. 1513), the celebrated printer of Nuremberg. After 1513 John carried on the firm on behalf of Antony’s sons. The eldest of these, Antony (25 Mar. 1498— 1532), was now beginning to take part in the business ; which since 1504 had been that of publishing rather than printing. But clearly John is intended here. See O. Hase, Die Koberger, Leipzig, 1885, and Proctor. Paraphrasis] The first of these, on the Romans, appeared in Nov. 1517. 23. epistolis] See Ep. 71 introd. Antibarbaros] See Ep. 30. 16 n. 24. Greyus] See Ep. 58 introd. g0. Calui] F. J. Calvus of Ticino or Como, a bookseller who on his business journeyings had made many friends among the literary men of his time. About 1518 he changed his name from Julius to Minutius (BRE. 120, c. Aug. 1518, because D! is in hand; wrongly Britannos 26. Anglos MS. placed in 1519); in 1519 Froben calls him ‘ Papiensis’ (LE?. 149); but afterwards he settled at Rome as a printer, where Panzer gives books printed by him 1524-31. In 1545 he was living at Milan, where he had been ill for more than two years (BRE. 362 and 395). Twenty-six letters from Alciati to him at Rome, 1518-32, and two from Beatus Rhenanus to him at Pavia, 1510, are printed in Marquardi Gudi Epistolae, ed. P. Burmann, Utrecht, 1697, pp. 75-113 and 151,2. He is not to be confused with Fabius Calvus of Ravenna, for whom he published some translations from Hippocrates, Rome, 1525; cf. Lond. xix. 16, LB. 921 and EE. 65. The original of the letter mentioned here, dated 1o Feb. 1517, is the Basle MS. G. II. 33. 24. In it Calvus introduces himself to Froben, announces that he is going to start as a printer at Genoa, and proposes to exchange the productions of their presses.
