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Buonanni, Filippo · 1691

These are demonstrated by those Sacred Metamorphoses transformations, described with elegant verse and a silver pen, which the presses of Europe sigh for and the Learned World awaits. These are proven by your Rara, works of both Nature and Art, whose collection, arranged by you in your distinguished Museo museum/study, not only delights the eyes of foreigners but nourishes their minds. They are proven by the pages into which you have transferred exotic birds from another world through successful hunting, and explained them with such elegant and ready verse that the colors, by which they are expressed from life, show them no less clearly. They are proven by the multiple types of stones, the fragments of which you present to the eyes depicted on charts, while you display the artifice of luxuriant Nature in painting them,