Georgii Agricolae medici Bermannus, sive de re metallica

BERMANNUS: Do not say that these things were written very truly about the miners. For even if they could be said of some who spend their own money on mines with no intention of ever receiving anything back, not a few are found on the contrary who acquire the greatest riches for themselves with very small expenses. Did the mines not give Moncero two hundred thousand gold coins within the memory of men? Did they not give almost as many to Romanus? And, to omit the Polners, Federanglis, Ippovios, Tomefernos, Phloccios, and many others, all of whom the mines enriched when they had nothing, or very little, do you know Georgius Storcius?
ANCON: I know him, a physician who is exceedingly learned and also knowledgeable in the metallica ars art of mining/metallurgy.
BERMANNUS: He is the one I intended to speak of. His father obtained many thousands of coins from the argentariae fodinae silver mines.
ANCON: I have heard so.
BERMANNUS: And Colomanus took the daughter of this man, the sister of that other, as his wife. Because of this, he became a participant in that splendid fortune.
ANCON: It is no wonder, then, if he himself loves the mines. I would love them if they bestowed upon me as many riches as...