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611] FROM ULRICH VON HUTTEN 27 scriba, qui nauiganti ex Britannia tibi adfuit: qui nescis, Erasme, quanti te faciant. Mihi quidem, quod te nossem, quod praeceptorem appellarem, miris modis benigni fuerunt. Preter hos Antimachus in Graecis professor citra honoris praefationem nunquam te nominat. Paucos ibi dies commoratus sum, Venetias ad se vocantibus duobus Huttenis qui in Syriam abeunt. Primus ibi hospitem Huttenum excepit Baptista Egnatius et munus dedit hospitale, Horatium Flaccum in tenuissimis membranis elegantissime expressum. Accurrerunt statim Aloisius Bragadenus, Hermolaus Barbarus, illius magni nepos, et Angelus Conterrenus, nobiles patriciis familiis iuuenes, tota passim vrbe medium circumduxissent ac honorifice suis ciuibus ostendissent, tandem veluti Vlyssem aliquem in Alcynoi domum, id est ad Asulani aedes, produxerunt. Vbi senex ille obuiam mihi progressus humanissime ad se accepit primum; post iussit prodire Toa. Franciscum ex filiis alterum, deinde reliquam familiam, et in his iuuenem quemdam Graece et Latine eruditum, quo in trans37. a2: Vlissem al. land in July 1516, and returned in August; see Brewer ii. 2117, 2149, and pe tage: 27. Antimachus] Marc. Antonius, son of Matthew Antimachus, a wealthy citizen of Mantua, who had been a pupil of Greg. Tifernas (fc. 1466). Antonius spent five years in Greece studying under Jo. Moschus of Sparta, perhaps at Corcyra ; but on Moschus’ death, fearing to venture the voyage to Const. Lascaris in Sicily, he returned to Venice, c. 8 Oct. (? 1499). By 1502 he had settled at Ferrara, whence on 15 July he dedicated to his father a translation from Gemistus Pletho. The inseription on his tomb, erected by his son 5 Jan. 1552, states that he taught Greek at Ferrara publicly for 20 years. In March 1540 he published some translations from Pletho, Dion. Halic., Dem. Phalereus, and Polyaenus (Basle, R. Winter). When Oporinus’ edition of the Sibylline Books appeared, Basle, March 1545, Antimachus collated it with a MS. in his own possession, and contributed a preface in Greek, which was printed in Oporinus’ second edition, Aug. 1555. See the early preface to Pletho; also Mazzuchelli and Legrand. 30. duobus Huttenis] of the Stolzenberg branch, Frowin (} Jan. 1529), the accepted head of the Hutten family, Marshal and later Steward of the household of the Abp. of Mainz; and his young cousin Louis (+ 1532). See Ersch and Gruber, Allg. Encycl. ii. xii. 221, 2. They made the pilgrimage to Jerusalem in the party led by Bernard of Hirschfeld, Chamberlain of Duke Frederick of Saxony (cf. SE. 119, 121); sailing from Venice on 17 June, and landing again at Gallipoli in Apulia on 28 Oct. See Röhricht, Deutsche Pilgerreisen nach dem Heiligen Lande, 1900, pp. 208-11, and for the narrative of the pilgrimage, Mitt. d. dewtschen Gesellschaft, Leipzig, i. (1856), 31-106; cf. HE. 55. Frowin had given much assistance to Ulrich in his youth (HE. 22, 34). 32. Horatium] Venice, Aldus, March 1509. 33. Bragadenus] Four persons of this name are mentioned in Sanuto 58 (1533). One was Podestà of Treviso 1525-7; Sanuto 38, 43. Barbarus] grandson of Zacharias, who was the elder Hermolaus’ father. His mame occurs frequently in Sanuto. In 1554 he was a member of the Council of Ten (Brown v. 847, 848 and 899). 34. Conterrenus] Perhaps Card. Gasparo Contarini’s (1483-1542) natural brother, Angelo, who in 1541 had been twenty-three years in Turkey, and was trying to remove his property out of Turkish hands. See F. Dittrich’s Regesten und Briefe of G. Contarini, 1881, p. 167, and Life, 1885, p. 776. 40. Franciscum] See Ep. 212. 2 n. 25
