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The presence of those marvellous abandoned things in the far corner of the city is felt in every byway, in every alley, in every forgotten court. "Amid the desolation of a city" this splendour is immortal, this glory is not dead. "Varie sono le opinioni degli Scrittori circa l'edificazione di Pisa," says Tronci in his Annali Pisani, published at Livorno in the seventeenth century.

As a boy he had begun to collect; in after years he kept thirty or forty 'scrittori' employed in various places, and spent in the course of time no less than 30,000 ducats on the collection. It was systematically extended and completed, chiefly by the help of Vespasiano, and his account of it forms an ideal picture of a library of the Renaissance.

Among the professional copyists those who understood Greek took the highest place, and it was they especially who bore the honorable name of 'scrittori. Their number was always limited, and the pay they received very large.

Milano, 1670. GIAMMATTEO TOSCANO: Peplus Italiæ. GIROLAMO TIRABOSCHI: Storia della Letteratura Italiana. Modena, 1772. R.P. NICERON: Mémoires pour servir a l'histoire des hommes illustres dans la République des Lettres, Paris, 1745. GIOVANNI MAZZUCHELLI: Gli Scrittori d'Italia. Brescia, 1753-1763. NICOLAI ANTONII: Bibliotheca Hispana nova sive Hispanorum Scriptorum. Madrid, 1783.