In the following year he issued another volume of Cicero, containing thirty orations, and added to it, doubtless by the hand of “Lodovico Carbo,” his corrector, seven couplets of verse whose phrasing has somehow impelled me to render them into disgracefully jingling rhymes: [Illustration: Cicero. Orationes. Venice: C. Valdarfer, 1471.] Germani ingenii quis non miretur acumen? Quod uult Germanus protinus efficiet. Aspice quam mira libros impresserit arte: Quam subito ueterum tot monumenta dedit Nomine Christophorus, Valdarfer gentis alumnus, Ratisponensis gloria magna soli. Nunc ingens Ciceronis opus causasque forenses, Quas inter patres dixit et in populo, Cernis quam recto, quam emendato ordine struxit: Nulla figura oculis gratior esse potest. Hoc autem illustri Venetum perfecit in urbe Praestanti Mauro sub duce Christophoro. Accipite hunc librum quibus est facundia cordi: Qui te Marte colet sponte disertus erit. M.CCCC.LXXI. LODO. CARBO. Of praising German talent what tongue can ever tire? For what a German wishes, ’tis done as soon as said. The skilful printing of this book should cause you to admire. How quickly, too, are published all these records of the dead. ’Tis Christopher who prints them, of the old Valdarfer stock, A credit and a glory to the soil of Ratisbon; Who issues now the speeches of great Cicero _en bloc_, “To the Senate,” “To the People,” and his Pleadings every one. You may see the order follows the best editorial school: No appearance could more justly please the eye. ’Tis printed here in Venice, ’neath the noble Moro’s rule; Who Cicero reads no other road to eloquence need try. 1471. Lodo. Carbo. After 1471 Valdarfer moved from Venice to Milan, where books from his press began to appear in 1474. Adam of Ammergau made some original contributions to the poetical tradition, but in his 1472 edition of Cicero’s Orations conveyed, and very clumsily, a couplet from Valdarfer’s edition of the previous year: Hoc ingens Ciceronis opus, causasque forenses Quas inter patres dixit et in populo, Tu quicunque leges, Ambergau natus ahenis Impressit formis. Ecce magister Adam. M.CCCC.LXXII. Who prints you now the speeches of great Cicero _en bloc_, “To the Senate,” “To the People,” and his Pleadings every one? Know, reader, that in Ammergau is his ancestral stock; ’Tis Master Adam of that place has this edition done. 1472.