Apo kōpēs eis to bēma

...and from more refined letters (having imitated your father, a man judged the greatest even by the most Serene Republic of Venice), and your exact knowledge, keep me within bounds, lest I be said to have praised you openly to your face. If I then consider the authority and renown of both your names, and the antiquity, excellence, dignity, and eminence of your lineage and family, both among our illustrious Rhaetians and among foreign princes, emperors, kings, and republics, it cannot but be among my greatest wishes that I be highly commended to you. For if the illustrious deeds, dignities, and privileges of yourselves and your fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers, etc., brothers, nephews, and relatives were to be comprehended in writing, I would know that a most voluminous book would have to be written by me. For if something had to be added, at least, about your brothers (to say nothing of other illustrious ancestors), O vigorous Lord Knight BAPTISTA, concerning the most excellent men Lord GUBERT, most eloquent of legal experts and most legal of the eloquent, and Lord RODOLPHUS, supreme Judge of Malantij, to whose fidelity and governance Vulturena was entrusted with great justice and the praise of prudence, how far would my speech grow? Indeed, if something had to be said about them, the honesty of the matter would in no way allow me to pass over in silence their sons, your nephews and the ornaments of the Salicei: of whom the former begat Lord BAPTISTA, doctor of both laws Doctor iuris utriusque, the most excellent Lord VESPASIAN, most worthy Vicar of Vulturena, Lord GUIDO ANTONIUS, and others; the latter begat Lord ANDREA, outstanding sons of outstanding fathers. I do not wish now to speak of your third deceased brother, Lord ANTONIO, and his sons: Lord HERCULES, Golden Knight and Governor of Vulturena and Captain of the most Christian King of the French; and Lord DIETEGANO, his son, of whom the latter died without offspring, and the former left Lord ANTONIO and ANDREA as heirs not only of his lineage and patrimony but also of his virtues, and as Lords of Riedperg; regarding many more...