[388] The titles of his philosophical works—De Studio divinæ et humanæ philosophiæ, De amore Divino, Examen vanitatis doctrinæ gentium et veritatis Christianæ disciplinæ, De rerum prænotione—show how closely he followed in the footsteps of Giovanni Pico.

[389] Joannis Francisci Pici Mirandolæ et Concordiæ Comitis Oratio ad Leon X. et Concilium Lateranense de reformandis Ecclesiæ moribus.

[390] Inghirami, made librarian 1510, died 1516. Beroaldo held the office two years, and died 1518. Acciaiuoli held it only for a few months. Aleander succeeded him in 1519.

[391] 'Linguâ verius quam calamo celebrem ... dictus sui seculi Cicero,' says Erasmus. 'Affluentissimum eloquentiæ flumen' is Valeriano's phrase.

[392] See Burckhardt, p. 174. Roscoe's Life of Leo X. vol. i. p. 357.

[393] See above, [p. 86].

[394] Cf. Giovio, close of the Elogia.

[395] Andreas Fulvius Sabinus Antiquarius, Antiquitates Urbis Romæ, 1527. Bartholomæus Marlianus, Eques D. Petri, Urbis Romæ Topographia, 1534. Jacobus Mazochius, Epigrammata antiquæ urbis Romæ, 1521. Johannis Pierii Valeriani Hieroglyphica seu de Sacris Ægyptiorum, &c., in his collected works, Ven. 1604.

[396] The architect of Verona who first edited Vitruvius, and was employed by Lorenzo de' Medici in collecting inscriptions for him at Rome.

[397] See above, [p. 111].