The Book called / The

Noblest Gift of God / made by Franciscus

Epimetheus.

Those who desire to have a true knowledge of the philosophical art of the greater wisdom should diligently examine this book and read it often, so they will obtain a happy wish. Hear this, you sons and children of the ancient philosophers. I yearn to cry out with as loud, clear, and high a voice as I possibly can: for I come to open the noble state of human things, and the most secret treasure of all the secrets of the whole world, not in an imaginary, ridiculous, or mocking way, but...