_Les Comptes facétieux et joyeuses recreations du Poge Florentin, trad. du Latin en François. Paris, Cousturier, 1605, in 16mo._ A neat and correct Latin edition of the _Facetiæ_ in two small pocket volumes was published by a French emigrant in the year 1798. Of this edition the following is the title. _Poggii Florentini Facetiarum Libellus Unicus notulis Imitatores indicantibus et nonnullis sive Latinis, sive Gallicis Imitationibus illustratus, simul ad fidem optimarum editionum emendatus. Mileti, 1798._ [410] _Visio Francisci Philelphi apud Poggii Opera, p. 456._ [411] _Tonelli, vol. ii. p. 122, 123._ [412] An eulogiam of Cosmo de’ Medici, written by Niccolo of Foligni, is preserved in the Laurentian library. _Mehi Vita Amb. Trav. tom. i. p. lxxiii._ [413] The reader of Joe Miller will remember that this story has, in its descent to modern times, received divers improvements. [414] See a long and elaborate letter of Leonardo’s on this subject in the collection of epistles published by Mehus, _Lib. vi. ep. x._ [415] It appears from the introduction to the second part of the _Historia discept. conviv._ (_Poggii Opera, p. 37_) that Poggio wrote two treatises, the one in commendation of the art of medicine, and the other in praise of the science of law. A MS. copy of the treatise _in laudem legum_ is preserved in the Laurentian library. _Bandini Catalogus, tom. ii. p. 408._ [416] _Poggii Epistolæ lvii. epist. xlvii._ [417] _Tiraboschi Storia della Letter. Ital. tom. vi. part 2d, p. 329._ [418] See _Ton. Tr. tom. ii. p. 138._ [419] _Recanati Vita Poggii, p. xvii.-xix._ The trading companies of Florence seem to have been constituted in the same manner as those into which the citizens of London are at this day subdivided. [420] _Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 456._ [421] _Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 456._ It may be mentioned as a striking instance of the liberty which was granted by personages of the most exalted eminence to scholars of celebrity in the fifteenth century, that Poggio at various times addressed letters to his patron, cardinal Beaufort, to prince John Corrinus, Waiwode of Hungary, to the duke of Viseo, brother to Edward, king of Portugal, and also to Alfonso, king of Naples, exhorting them to active exertions against the Turks, who at this time threatened to overrun some of the finest countries of Europe. These letters still exist in the Riccardi MS. _Ton. Tr. tom. ii. p. 140._