same remark as Marzio. After alluding to the
early fame of its author, he says,--"C'est lui dans les oeuvres duquel
nous trouvons un vers, souvent par nous allegue sans que plusieurs
sachent qui en fut l'auteur." In quoting this verse the French author
uses _Decidis_ instead of _Incidis_. The discovery by Marzio, and the
repetition of this discovery by Pasquier, are chronicled at a later day
in the Conversations of Menage, who found a French Boswell before the
Bosweil of Dr. Johnson was born.[15] Jortin, in the elaborate notes to
his Life of Erasmus, borrows from Menage, and gives the same
history.[16]

When Galeotto Marzio made his discovery, this poem was still in
manuscript; but there were several editions before the "Adagia" of
Erasmus. An eminent authority--the "Histoire Litteraire de la
France,"[17] that great work commenced by the Benedictines, and
continued by the French Academy--says that it was printed for the first
time at Strasburg, in 1513. This is a mistake, which has been repeated
by Warton.[18] Brunet, in his "Manuel de Libraire," mentions an edition,
without place or date, with the cipher of Guillaume Le Talleur, who was
a printer at Rouen, in 1487. Panzer, in his "Annales Typographici,"[19]
describes another edition, with the monogram of Richard Pynson, the
London printer, at the close of the fifteenth century. Beloe, in his
"Anecdotes of Literature,"[20] also speaks of an edition with the
imprint of R. Pynson. There appears to have been also an edition under
date of 1496. Then came the Strasburg edition of 1513, by J. Adelphus.
All these are in black letter. Then came the Ingolstadt edition, in
1541, in Italic, or, as it is called by the French, "cursive
characters," with a brief life of the poet, by Sebastian Link. This was
followed, in 1558, by an edition at Lyons, also in Italic, announced as
now for the first time appearing in France, _nunc primum in Gallia_, was
a mistake. This edition seems to have enjoyed peculiar favor. It has
been strangely confounded with imaginary editions which have never
existed; thus, the Italian Quadrio assures us that the best was at
London, in 1558;[21] and the French Millin assures us that the best was
at Leyden, in 1558.[22] No such editions appeared; and the only edition
of that year was at Lyons. After a lapse of a century, in 1659, there
was another edition, by Athanasius Gugger, a monk of the Monastery of
St. Gall, in France, published at the Monastery itself,