He vaunted to pronounce
(Like a young Antichrist) if he
Did read the same but once.”
[75] P. 457. The work was printed in the same volume with Peter Martyr’s De Rebus Oceanicis. Cologne, 1574.
[76] Bruce’s Travels, III, 134.
[77] Duret refers for some notice of Covilham, to the rare work of Alvarez, De Historia Ethiopum. In the hope of discovering something further regarding this remarkable and little-known linguist, I endeavoured to consult that author; but I have not been able to find a copy. It is not in the British Museum.
[78] Galatinus de Arcanis Cath. Veritatis Libri XII. (Frankfort 1572), B. III. c. 6, p. 120.
[79] There is considerable difference of opinion as to his birth-place. But Nicholas Antonio, in the Bibliotheca Hispana, says it was Frexenal. Vol. III. p. 207.
[80] Enfans Celebres, p. 198. Baillet says it was an edition of Seneca’s Tragedies; but this is a mistake. The In Senecæ Tragedias Adversaria did not appear till 1574.
[81] Teatro Critico, IV. 401.