Tu quicunque leges, Ambergau natus ahenis
Impressit formis. Ecce magister Adam.
M.CCCC.LXXII.
Who prints you now the speeches of great Cicero en bloc,
“To the Senate,” “To the People,” and his Pleadings every one?
Know, reader, that in Ammergau is his ancestral stock;
’Tis Master Adam of that place has this edition done.
1472.
The Venetian verse tradition seems now to have settled down into a convention that a new printer should announce his arrival in Latin elegiacs, but need not continue the practice. Franciscus de Hailbrun complied with it to this extent in some dull lines in an edition of the “Quadragesimale” of Robertus de Licio in 1472; and it is in another edition of the same work that Panzer first records three couplets which, with the addition of a prose sentence, also constant in form, occur in numerous books printed by Bartolommeo de Cremona:
