10. _Francisci Barbari viri illustris. pro Flavio Forliviensi pro Proemio descriptionis Italiæ illustratæ. Ad Alphonsum Serenissimum Arragonum Regem._ Cardinal Quirini, in the above mentioned dissertation, has printed this præfatory essay, which was written by Barbaro, in the name of Flavio Biondo. 11. _Epitaphium clarissimi viri Francisci Barbari Veneti in laudem Gathamelatæ Imperatoris Gentis Venetorum._ This epitaph Agostini has published in his _Istoria degli Scrittori Viniziani_, from a MS. preserved in the Guarnerian library in Friuli. _Agostini Istoria degli Scrittori Viniziani, tom. ii. p. 28-134._ [87] _Leonardi Aretini Epistolæ, l. iv. ep. v._ [88] This letter from Poggio to Guarino Veronese is printed by L’Enfant, in the supplement to the second volume of his _Poggiana_, from a MS. in the Wolfenbuttle library. _See Poggiana, tom. ii. p. 309._ [89] Mehus is of opinion that the copy of Quintilian, thus found by Poggio, is preserved in the Laurentian library.—_Præfatio ad vitam Ambrosii Traversarii, p. xxxiv._ [90] _Mehi Præfatio ad vitam Ambrosii Traversarii, p. xxxv. xxxvi._ [91] The manuscript of this author was sent by Poggio to Martin V. who permitted Niccolo Niccoli to transcribe it. Niccolo’s transcript is preserved in the Marcian library at Florence.—_Mehi Præfat. p. xxxvii. xxxviii._ [92] Poggio transmitted his newly recovered copy of Lucretius to Niccolo Niccoli, who, with his usual diligence, made with his own hand a transcript of it, which is yet extant in the Laurentian library.—_Mehi Præfat. p. xxxviii._ [93] Poggio found this copy of Tertullian in a monastery of the monks of Clugny at Rome. By some means the cardinal Ursini got possession of it, and morosely locked it up from the inspection of the learned. At the instance of Lorenzo de’ Medici, however, he suffered the manuscript to be transported to Florence, where it was copied, first by Ambrogio Traversari, and afterwards by Niccolo Niccoli. The transcript of Niccoli is lodged in the library of St. Mark.—_Mehi Præfatio, p. xxxix._