Curiosities of the Royal Library at Dresden

nangen, Canon of Stuttgart, orator and lawyer, and Ducal Senator. Apology for his Commentaries on the abuse of the Latin language. Chastisement of the commentaries. Epistle to Benedictus Farner of Hercinigen, lawyer and Canon of Stuttgart, concerning the works published by him and his rivals. On the method of speaking and writing well. Why Neckar is aspirated. Who are the peoples of the Swabians. Epistle to Jo. Streler, lawyer of Ulm, and triumvir of the Swabian League, and Consistorial Judge. On the types of diseases and their true names from the tradition of the Greeks and Latins. Response to the questions of Georgius Slotkopf, schoolmaster of Constance. Against the slanderer of Bebelius, Cocchinius to the reader. Michael Cocchinius, otherwise called Köchlin of Tübingen, to the studious German youth. This last letter is dated the 25th of April, 1505, at Tübingen, at which time this first part also seems to have been printed.

In the second part of the works of Bebelius, which are mostly indicated on the title

481.) Primus Tomus Operum Vergerii adversus Papatum. Tubingæ, apud Viduam Vlrici Morhardi 1563. 4. fol. 401. First Volume of the Works of Vergerius against the Papacy. Tübingen, at the widow of Ulrich Morhard, 1563. 4to, folio 401.

Of Petrus Paulus Vergerius, former Bishop of Capo d'Istria, or Justinopolis, and former Papal Nuncio in Germany, but later a Protestant theologian, and a part of his

writings, Christian August Salig has provided sufficient information in the second volume of his History of the Augsburg Confession from page 1149 onwards. He also has there the Latin discourse of Jo. Casa, page 1184.

page, the first poems are printed in larger letters. The first, or Triumph of Venus, is considered a great rarity, which Jac. Thomasius was unable to see. See Herr Vogt's Catal. Libb. rar. Catalog of rare books. The second, Triumph of Caesar Augustus against the Bohemians, Pastoral Eclogue, celebrated and recited in the manner of peasants, does not stand on the title page, but is included alongside the following poems in Volume II of Freher's collection Scriptorum Rerum Germanicarum Writers of German Affairs. The remaining historical works found here are for the most part in the collections of Schardius and Goldast. Quenstedt de Patriis illustr. vir. on the famous men of their countries says of Bebelius: "Henricus Bebelius, German poet, is to be numbered among those who tried to restore the use of Roman eloquence, neglected by the injury of time and likewise by the carelessness of men, and to restore it to genuine brilliance."