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...[may] seem. However, I have one reason that can satisfy anyone, even the most fastidious original: "fastidiosissimo"; refers to a critic who is very difficult to please or easily disgusted., which rests in your humanity and kindness, Most Reverend Father Most Reverend Father: a formal honorific for a high-ranking member of a religious order or a bishop.: This kindness—which, because of my very insignificance original: "tenuitate"; the author is using a common rhetorical trope of "humility," suggesting his own status is minor compared to the patron's greatness., will be all the more illustrious and pleasing to everyone—will be able to justify my plan; it will adorn the outcome, whatever it may be, of this academic exercise academic exercise: likely referring to the public defense of this thesis or the writing of the treatise itself.; and this same kindness will support me as I speak, even if I should perhaps falter in the most difficult and entangled passages.