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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 expres¬
sum. 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 trans¬
37. 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 col¬
lated it with a MS. in his own posses¬
sion, and contributed a preface in
Greek, which was printed in Oporinus’
second edition, Aug. 1555. See the
early preface to Pletho; also Mazzu¬
chelli and Legrand.
30. duobus Huttenis] of the Stolzen¬
berg 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 Gesell¬
schaft, 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) na¬
tural 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.
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