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"It is worse," said Mike, "than the Middle Temple Hall far worse; but I like this old colonnade, there is something so suggestive in this old inscription in bad Latin. 'Vetustissima Templariorum porticu Igne consumptâ; an 1679 Nova hæc sumptibus medii Templie extructa an 1681 Gulielmo Whiteloche arm Thesauör."
He sent copies of this work to several distinguished personages, and notably to Louisa of Savoy, mother of Francis I. But she not understanding, so thinks Harrisse, the very learned author of the Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima, the kind of patois used by Pigafetta, and which resembles a mixture of Italian, Venetian, and Spanish, employed a certain Jacques Antoine Fabre to translate it into French.
HERMANN SCHUMACHER: Petrus Martyrus der Geschichtsschreiber des Weltmeeres. 1879. H. HEIDENHEIMER: Petrus Martyrus Anglerius und sein Opus Epistolarum. J. GERIGK: Das Opus Epistolarum des Petrus Martyrus. 1881. P. GAFFAREL ET L'ABBÉ SOUROT: Lettres de Pierre Martyr Anghiera. 1885. J.H. MARIÉJOL: Un lettré italien a la cour d'Espagne. H. HARRISSE: Bibliotheca Americana Vetustissima. New York, 1866.
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