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The De Varietate was first printed at Basel in 1553, and, as soon as it was out of the press, it brought a trouble not indeed a very serious one upon the author.

IX. Bracciolini's hand shown by reference to the Plague. X. Fawning of Roman senators more like conduct of Italians in the fifteenth century. XI. Same exaggeration with respect to Pomponia Graecina and the Romans. XII. Wrong statement of the images borne at the funeral of Drusus. XIII. Similar kind of error committed by Bracciolini in his "De Varietate Fortunae". XIV. Errors about the Red Sea.

"Libros de Rerum varietate anno MDLVIII edidi: erant enim reliquiæ librorum de subtilitate." De Vita Propria, p. 176. "Reversus in patriam, perfeci libros XVII de Rerum varietate quos jampridem inchoaveram." Opera, tom. i. p. 110. He had collected much material during his life at Gallarate.

Where he occupies in the De Subtilitate one page in considering those things which lie outside Nature demons, ghosts, incantations, succubi, incubi, divinations, and such like he spends ten in the De Varietate over kindred subjects. There is a wonderful story told by his father of a ghost or demon which he saw in his youth while he was a scholar in the house of Giovanni Resta at Pavia.

In the Novellino of Masuccio, which was first printed in 1476, there is a passage in the tenth novel of the first part, in which a rogue passes as "grandissimo cognoscitore" of gems because he had spent much time in Scotland. De Varietate, p. 636. De Varietate, p. 637. Ibid., p. 637. Ibid., p. 565. "Peracto L anno quod stipendium non remuneraretur mansi Mediolani." De Vita Propria, ch. iv. p. 15.

After the completion of the Commentaries on Subtlety, he published as a kind of appendix to these that most learned work the De Rerum Varietate. And in this case, before news was brought to me of his death, I followed my customary practice, and in the course of three days compiled an Excursus in short chapters.

A correct Account of the most remarkable National Establishments and Public Buildings. In a Series of Letters, Ipsa varietate tentamus efficere, ut alia aliis, quaedem fortasse omnibus placeant. PLIN. Epist. A SKETCH OF PARIS, &c. &c. Paris, December 23, 1801.

Sozomen tells us, that men were left to their own judgment about the keeping of Easter, Jerome saith of the feasts which the church in his time observed, that they were pro varietate regionum diversa. The first who established a law about any festival day, is thought to have been Pius I, bishop of Rome, yet it is marked that the Asiatican doctors did not care much for this constitution of Pius.

Translated into Portuguese, they were re-translated from the Portuguese into Italian by Ramusio, who searched for but failed to obtain a copy of the original in Latin. This original was first published in 1723 by the Abbe Oliva of Paris under the title P. BRACCIOLINI, DE VARIETATE FORTUNAE, LIBER QUATUOR. Nicolo, on reaching India, visited first the city of Cambaya in Gujarat.

"Sed nullus major labor quam libri de Rerum Varietate quem cum sæpius mutassem, demum traductis quibuscunque insignioribus rebus in libros de Subtilitate, ita illum exhausi, ut totus denuo conscribendus fuerit atque ex integro restituendus." Opera, tom. i. p. 74. He seems to have utilized the services of Ludovico Ferrari in compiling this work. Opera, tom. i. p. 64. De Varietate, p. 661.