Where polished speech, like Greek, doth light impart,
And all is printed by Cristoforo’s art,
Whose clan’s Valdarfer, Ratisbon his home.
The would-be orator need but buy this tome.
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:
Cicero. Orationes. Venice: C. Valdarfer, 1471.
Germani ingenii quis non miretur acumen?
Quod uult Germanus protinus efficiet.