[379] “Optimi sanctissimique viri Nicolai quinti summi pontificis beneficentia id effecit, ut jam querelæ temporum sint prætereundæ, utque in gratiam aliquando cum fortuà videar rediisse.”—_Poggii Opera, p. 32._ [380] _Poggii Hist. de Variet. Fort. p. 1, 2, 3._ [381] _Poggii Hist. de Variet. Fort. p. 6, 7._ [382] Poggio’s narrative of the discoveries made by Niccolo Conti was translated into the Portuguese language, by the command of Emanuel I. king of Portugal. From the Portuguese version, an Italian translation was made by Giambattista Ramusio, who inserted it in the first volume of his collection of voyages and travels, printed in folio at Venice, in the year 1588. A small portion of the first book of the dialogue _De Varietate Fortunæ_ containing the description of the ruins of Rome, is printed in the Basil edition of the works of Poggio. A manuscript copy of the entire dialogue was discovered in the library of the cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, nephew of pope Alexander VIII., by Lionardo Adami da Bolsena, who began to prepare it for the press. Lionardo having died before he had finished the transcript of the first book, the execution of his design was completed by the Abate Domenico Giorgi da Rovigo, who finished the transcript of the dialogue, illustrated it with notes, and subjoined to it fifty-seven of Poggio’s epistles, which had not yet seen the light. Under the superintendence of the Abate Oliva, the work thus prepared was printed at Paris, in 4to., an. 1723, by Coustellier. _Zeno Diss. Voss. tom. i. p. 40. Dominici Georgii Prœfatio ad Poggii Hist. de Variet. Fort._ [383] _Fasciculus Rer. Expet. et Fugiend. tom. ii. p. 570-583._ An edition of Leonardo Aretino and Poggio’s dialogues on Hypocrisy was published by Hieronymus Sincerus Lotharingus, _ex typograghiá Anissoniá, Lugduni, 1679, in 16mo._ [384] _Poggii Opera, p. 159._ [385] _Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 417._ [386] _Poggii Opera, p. 155-164._ [387] _Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 431._ [388] This translation of Diodorus Siculus was printed, _Bononiæ, 1472, in folio_. _Bandini Catalogus Bibliothecæ Laurentianæ, tom. ii. p. 819._ [389] _Poggii Hist. de Variet. Fortunæ, p. 3._ From the prefatory remarks which Poggio prefixed to his version of the Cyropædia, and which are quoted by Bandini, in his _Catalogus Bibliothecæ, Laurentianæ, tom. ii. p. 351_, it should seem, that by omitting many of the dialogues and speeches, he had considerably abridged the work of Xenophon, whose eight books he had compressed into six. An Italian translation of Poggio’s version of the Cyropædia, made by his son Jacopo, was published at Florence by the Junta, _an._ 1521. It is worthy of remark, that Poggio was the first literary character who declared his opinion (an opinion now generally entertained) that the Cyropædia is not a history, but a political romance. _Ton. Tr. vol. ii. p. 108._ [390] _Facii Opera, p. 98._