point si je n’avais à remarquer sur celuici, comme sur le précédent qu’il a été imité. Ou le trouve dans Vergier sous le titre de _l’Anneau de Merlin_. This is the _Annulus_ which Poggio (_Facet. p. 141_) gives Philephus. In addition to the above, _Le Médecin de Bral, aliàs le Villain dévenu Médecin_, _tom. ii. p. 366_, from which Moliere has borrowed his _Médecin malgré lui_, is in some parts imitated in the _Poggiana_, where an account is given of an expeditious method of clearing the sick list of an hospital on his estate, by an Italian cardinal. Deguisé en Médecin il leur declara qu’ on ne pouvait les guerir qu’ avec un onguent de graisse humaine, mais des qu’il eut proposé de tirer au sort à qui serait mis dans la chaudiere, tous viderent l’hôpital. _Vol. iii. p. 95_, _Les deux Parasites_, (une assez mauvaise plaisanterie) in the _Facetiæ_ of Frischlinus is attributed to Poggio, and is in his _Facetiæ_, _p. 67_, _Danthis Faceta Responsio_. When Dante was dining with Canis Scaliger, the courtiers had privately placed all the _bones_ before him. Versi omnes in solum Dantem, mirabantur cur ante ipsum solummodo ossa conspicerentur, tum ille, Minimè inquit mirum, si Canes ossa sua commederunt; ego autem non sum _Canis_. Le Grand does not notice this as contained in the _Facetiæ_ of Poggio; but the resemblance is as great as between most of those that he notices. [409] _Poggii Opera, p. 219._ The popularity of the _Facetiæ_ is evinced by the number of editions through which that work has passed; seven different impressions of it are thus enumerated by De Bure, who erroneously gives to Poggio the prœnomen of Franciscus. 1. _Francisci Poggii Florentini Facetiarum Liber; editio vetustissima et originalis absque loci et anni indicatione, sed cujus in fronte apparet Epistola prœfatoria Bernardi cujusdam in senium deducti ad militem Raymundum Dominum Castri Ambrosii dicata, in 4to._ De Bure conjectures, that this edition was printed at Rome by George Laver or Ulric Han, in 1470. 2. _Ejusdem Edito vetus et secunda originalis absque loci et anni indicatione ulla, sed typis Vindelini Spirensis, aut saltem Nicolai Jenson Gallici excusa Venetiis circa, an. 1471, in fol._ 3. _Ejusdem, Ferrariæ, 1471, 4to._ 4. _Ejusdem, Noribergi per Fredericum Creusner, 1475, in fol._ 5. _Ejusdem, Mediolani per Christophorum Valdarfer, 1477, 4to._ 6. _Ejusdem, Mediolani per Leonardum Pachel, et Uldrericum Scinzinzeller, 1481, in 4to._ 7. _Ejusdem, Facetiæ cum Laurentii Vallæ facetiis moralibus et Francisci Petrarchæ de Salibus viror. illus. ac facetiis libro, Paris, absque anni et typographi nomine sed circa, annum 1477, aut saltem 1478, excusa, 4to._ 8. Poggii _Facetiæ, 1498_, in 4to. sine loci aut typographi nomine. This edition is not mentioned by De Bure, who closes his list with noticing the following translations. _Les Faceties de Pogge translatées de Latin en François. Paris, Bonfons, 1549, 4to._