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 GRIMALDPS 
 
 Funeral Oration 
 
 ANDREA ALCI ATI 
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 PREFACE. 
 
 IRTUES, in the fullest 
 extent to which human 
 effort can attain, never 
 truly deserve those un- 
 measured praises which 
 to the authors of Fu- 
 neral Orations so often 
 appear necessary, if not 
 essential. Vitiated and 
 faulty, offensive to good 
 taste, and built up on 
 unsound principles as 
 are many of the pane- 
 gyrics, the laudations, 
 the lodi, which from 
 Greek and Latin down 
 
 to Italian times have prevailed, and thence through Italy 
 have spread among all the countries of the modern civil- 
 ization ; we should commit an injustice, were we to 
 declare that flattery of an unscrupulous kind must always 
 be interwoven with them, and summon exaggeration 
 to its aid. This Funeral Oration for Alciati is, indeed, 
 much overdrawn ; there is some very vapid declamation 
 in it, and where most it is successful, there is found a 
 want of the natural flow of eloquence which makes an 
 articulate-speaking man so powerful ; yet there is in 
 Grirnaldi an honest heartiness which shows that the Orator 
 himself, how much soever he may have failed in clearness 
 of expression, thought what he uttered, and bestowed
 
 vi PREFACE. 
 
 much pains as well as feeling to make his thought under- 
 stood and to pervade the minds of his hearers. 
 
 As stated elsewhere, " In translating this Oration, the 
 Editor has derived much guidance, as to the general mean- 
 ing and force, from a highly valued friend, who allowed him 
 the use of his English version, and whose kindness is now 
 acknowledged ; but the Editor has thought it better, at 
 some expense of elegance it may be, to follow rather 
 closely the language and form of the original. The 
 Carmina on Alciati's death and renown are no part of the 
 Oration, and they are left in their original Latin." 
 
 Those were indeed great funeral themes which engaged 
 the genius of Pericles and Demosthenes ; the one, when the 
 Athenians publicly solemnized the memory of such as were 
 first killed in the Peloponnesian war, B.C. 431 ; the other, 
 when the same honour was decreed for those who fell in 
 the fatal conflict of Chaeroneia, B.C. 338 ; but a theme on a 
 similar subject, though much inferior in importance, was, in 
 October, 1571, assigned at Venice to Paolo Pavia, " in laude 
 de' morti," in praise of the dead, " at the victorious battle 
 against the Turks fought at Cursolari." With much joy the 
 orator spoke of their valour, and esteemed theirs a most 
 happy fate. " But it is time," he said, " that I should cease 
 praising with the tongue those whose praises in the memory 
 of men will not have any bound, except with the world 
 itself." 
 
 About the time of Alciati's death, and down at least to 
 the end of the last century, the practice was observed of 
 pronouncing over men exalted for rank or character, a 
 solemn laudatory speech. Of such speeches, a considerable 
 number fifty were collected by William Roscoe, the 
 historian of the Medici, and are preserved in the very 
 excellent library of the Chetham College, Manchester. 
 
 Belonging to the sixteenth century, and beginning. with 
 Leonardo Salviati's Orasione on the death of the most 
 illustrious Don Garzia de' Medici, in 1562, there are 
 thirteen of these Funeral Orations. They are generally 
 of a small quarto size, containing from 16 to 65 pages, 
 and usually end with the words " lo ho detto," I have
 
 PREFACE. vii 
 
 said it. Many of them are translations from the original 
 Latin into the tongue of Florence. 
 
 No less than five of these Orations celebrate the death 
 and virtues of Cosimo de' Medici, who died in 1574, 
 Grand-duke of Tuscany and Grand-master of the Cavaliers 
 of S. Stephen. The Oration by Leonardo Salviati, in 
 the church of the Order, has on its title the pretty de- 
 vice of a tortoise with hoisted sail, and the old motto, 
 FESTINA LENTE, On-slow, as one of our English nobles 
 translates the Latin : another by Piero Vettori, in the 
 church of S. Lorenzo, bears the device of a ship with full 
 sails, and the motto ET POTEST ET WLT, // both can 
 and will : the third by Geo. Batista Adriani, in the public 
 palace, presents a portrait of Cosimo and an inscription 
 below it, declaring it to be the gift of Pius V., in testimony 
 to Cosimo's "peculiar delight and zeal for the Catholic 
 religion, and especial love of justice :" the fourth by 
 Pietro Angelio da Burga, in the Duomo of Pisa, con- 
 tains as well the ducal arms as Cosimo's portrait : and 
 the fifth, by Benedetto Betti, publicly recited to the 
 Society of S. John the Evangelist, contains an account of 
 the funeral obsequies, and at the end the Lily, with the 
 appropriate motto NIL CANOIDIUS, Nothing fairer* 
 
 But, like prayer itself, these praises were not for princes 
 alone. Witness, in 1564, Benedetto Varchi's Orazione 
 
 * Besides these Cosimo-Medicean orations, and probably several others, 
 there were published on the same occasion Canzone, like the Carmina at the 
 end of Grimaldi's work, /. e. Odes on the death of the most serene Cosimo 
 Medici, first grand-duke of Tuscany. One set of these was by Giovanni 
 Cervoni da Colle, who also composed Canzone on the death of Francisco 
 Medici, in 1587; on the nuptials of Don Cesare d'Este to Donna Virginia 
 Medici, also in 1587 ; and on the crowning of the Cardinal de' Medici as 
 grand-duke of Tuscany, 1587. 
 
 We may note also, as belonging to the end of the same sixteenth century, 
 nnd as contained in the Roscoe Collection, I. The Cardinal Niceno's Lettere 
 ef Crazione to the princes of Italy concerning the impending war against the 
 Turk, 1594; and Scipione Ammirato's Orazione at the same time to the 
 pope Sextus V., pertaining to the same subject. 2. Also in 1594, Scipione 
 Ammirato addressed orations to Sextus V. on the preparations which had 
 been made against the power of the Turk ; and ' ' to his Lord the most serene 
 and most powerful Catholic king, Philip King of Spain, &c.," " on the pacifi- 
 cation of Christendom, and on taking arms unitedly against the Infidels."
 
 viii PREFACE. 
 
 Fvnerale at the obsequies of Michelagnolo Bvonarroti, 
 in the church of San Lorenzo; and in 1585, Leonardo 
 Salviati's Orazionc Fvnerale " of the praises of Pier 
 Vettori, Senator and Academician of Florence, by order 
 of the Florentine Academy, in the church of Santo 
 Spirito." 
 
 The Roscoe collection of Lodi possesses 12 similar Ora- 
 tions delivered in the seventeenth century, between 1614 
 and 1664 ; and 26 Funeral Orations of the eighteenth 
 century, between 1709 and 1781. By any one disposed to 
 the work, many curious extracts might be gathered from 
 these memorials of the illustrious dead ; but to make such 
 a work complete, a very wide area would have to be 
 examined. Augustus pronounced the Funeral Oration 
 for the young Marcellus, and Nero for his wife Poppaea. 
 Over Christian martyrs the holy words of commendation 
 were uttered ; and in later times, at the burial hour of 
 philosophers and poets, of statesmen, generals, and philan- 
 thropists, of mighty princes and of noble patriots, the 
 tongue of the eloquent has spoken many a vain flattery 
 and many a solemn truth. Laymen, no less than eccle- 
 siastics, have joined in the practice ; and the Academies 
 of Italy and France have set the whole civilized world 
 the example of rendering speech the vehicle of praise. 
 " Of the dead nothing but good " has been too much their 
 rule ; " nothing set down in malice " might be the better 
 guide. 
 
 Of the two ornamental capitals employed, the V pre- 
 sents the Ale, or Elk, the badge of the family of the 
 Alciati ; the H, the Cornucopias and Mercury's wand, which 
 Paolo Giovio and the medal in the Museum Mazzu- 
 chellianum have attributed to the Jurisconsult himself, 
 Giovio adopting for motto, VIRTVTI, FORTVNA COMES, 
 Fortune tJie companion to virtue, and Mazzuchelli, when 
 corrected, ANAPOS AIKAIOY KAPI1OS OYK AHOA- 
 A YTA I, The fruit of the just man perishes not. 
 
 II. G. 
 
 HEATHFIELD, KNUTSFORD, 
 July ay///, 1871.
 
 FUNERAL ORATION 
 
 Delivered at Pavia, January igf/i, 
 
 M.D.L. 
 IN THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH, 
 
 AT THE FUNERAL 
 
 OF THE VERY FAMOUS JURISCONSULT 
 
 ANDREA ALCIATI, 
 
 ALEXANDER GRIMALDI OF ANTIPOLIS. 
 
 OW GREAT, 
 
 alas ! was the 
 wound which 
 lately the Com- 
 monwealth of 
 Christians re- 
 ceived by the 
 decease of An- 
 drea Alciati, a 
 man confessedly 
 the chief of all 
 ages and of all 
 memory in 
 learning and 
 virtue. The loss 
 
 _ __ not even he, on 
 
 whom nature 
 
 has bestowed the highest fulness and faculty of speaking, 
 could in any way, I say not, encompass by eloquence, but 
 even enumerate by narrating. For where in man has there 
 
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 2 GRIMALDPS FUNERAL ORATION. 
 
 ever been such integrity of life ? such constancy of purpose ? 
 and, lastly, such knowledge of all sciences ? Who, except 
 the utterly senseless, will deny that he was instinct with a 
 divine spirit? 
 
 On diligently considering these things within myself, I 
 had, in truth, determined to decline the office of addressing 
 you ; for I knew that I must speak before so thronged and 
 grave a presence and audience of learned men as never 
 in my memory have been in any place. Therefore I was 
 afraid, lest the undertaking of that office might appear 
 boldness towards you rather than affection, and rashness 
 rather than duty. In acuteness of genius and in gravity 
 of judgment, and in the art and practice of speaking (on 
 which, when a youth, I did not spend much of my time), 
 I am left far behind you all ; and shall I then dare to 
 touch upon the praises of the man who was eminent 
 for every kind of talent, especially for eloquence, and for 
 authority in this position, to which none but the highest 
 ability ought to be brought ? 
 
 But, most honourable Fathers ! if once you recognise 
 the nature and the reasons of my case, you will, I think, 
 understand that I have entered upon this province of 
 speaking, not from any self-confidence of discharging the 
 office, but lest some one might fail to find in me the 
 dutifulness of a grateful disciple towards his Preceptor. 
 
 For this man, by divine and immortal qualities, to that 
 degree had captivated not only his own people, but (so much 
 of human perfection had nature bestowed upon him) all 
 those of France also, that it must have shamed us, being 
 bound to him by the eternal memory of benefits, if the 
 gratitude which to him living and breathing we had not 
 shown (for we were not able to do it), we had not paid 
 to the dead with a mind remembering what is the very 
 greatest which our souls could attain. Him therefore 
 would we honour with some solemn oration. 
 
 Now, though such an oration may obscure the singular 
 and choice virtues of a man endowed with divine genius, 
 with admirable learning and with wisdom beyond belief, 
 instead of illustrating his greatness, I yet prefer elo-
 
 GRIMALDPS FUNERAL ORATION. 3 
 
 quence to be demanded against me, rather than to be 
 suspected of an ungrateful soul, if I should not do that. 
 For I think that the death of him who is considered to 
 have bestowed benefits on all men should be honoured not 
 only by public grief, but also by public memorials. 
 
 Be ye all, whose countenances and features I contem- 
 plate not without great satisfaction of mind, present then 
 in soul as ye are in body, and with most attentive minds 
 and the highest benignity, listen to me while I say a few 
 things concerning the praises of Andrea Alciati, our most 
 renowned Preceptor. 
 
 Surely a great and arduous burden has this day been 
 laid upon me of praising by far the greatest and most 
 illustrious man of all who are, have been, or will be. 
 Therefore must my mind be roused and elevated, that 
 ye with your ears may be sensible of the dignity of so 
 great a theme, and that we may grasp the comprehensive 
 oration by mind and thought. 
 
 What shall I do ? What first shall I seek ? Whence 
 especially shall I make a beginning ? Already, doubtless, 
 not only am I moved in soul, but I tremble in every 
 limb ; nor is there any part of my body able sufficiently 
 to perform its duty. In speaking, shall I touch upon the 
 memory of his incredible virtues ? Shall I, by my oration, 
 increase the general grief, or sorrow, by which we all are 
 distracted and torn asunder, and are weighed down and 
 consumed ? But I fear if I shall do this, lest I, who 
 ought to comfort the souls of you all which are more than 
 enough affrighted, should thoroughly weaken and break 
 them down by the recalling of this bitter sadness to mind. 
 
 By the death of Alciati, to whose virtues no age ever 
 had equal among all mankind, who is not so confounded 
 that there seems neither measure nor intermission of 
 tears, nor any future alleviation ? For whoever shall not 
 wish to examine him from his boyhood, and to commence 
 from the beginning, will easily judge him to have gone 
 beyond the usual measure of human ability. Scarcely 
 had be been led forth from the cradle, when he gave to 
 all the signs of highest hope, of highest inborn power of
 
 4 GRIMALDI'S FUNERAL ORATION. 
 
 genius, and of highest virtue, so that all seemed to have 
 foretold concerning him what, according to Plato, Socrates 
 augured concerning Isocrates. Nor, indeed, was he able 
 only to uphold and to maintain the wonderful expectation 
 of himself which he had roused, but he altogether sur- 
 passed it. 
 
 For, refreshed from the fountains of genius, when he 
 had advanced some little in age, not only did he with the 
 edges of his lips taste those studies by which boyhood is 
 accustomed to be moulded to human culture, and, as is 
 said, touched them with the ends of his fingers, but to 
 every kind of learning he bravely applied the acuteness 
 of his intellect ; as to the toilsome rules of the Gram- 
 marians, the distinctions of Orators, the subtleties of 
 Rhetoricians, the notes of Musicians, the measurings of 
 Geometers, the numbers of Arithmeticians, the motions 
 of Astronomers, the pharmaceutics of Medicine, the hidden 
 sentences of Philosophers, and the divine dogmas of 
 Theologians. Even before he had completed the full 
 age of youth, he had by very ample proofs consecrated 
 the memory of his own name. For while yet a young 
 man he wrote very many orations and declamations ; they 
 were ornamented and polished with elegant and pointed 
 sentences and important words ; and no one, except he 
 was stupid, and void of common learning and of the 
 polish of human culture, would judge them filled with 
 puerile fiction and pretence, but the products of lettered 
 old age. 
 
 There is in them a certain kind of discourse so liquid, 
 copious, and flowing, that a golden stream of oratory may 
 evidently be seen, and the acumen of the Attics, their 
 eloquence, brevity, and wit, may be recognised. The 
 History of his own country he wove together so truly, 
 purely, and ornately, that there is manifest in it a certain 
 brevity as of Sallust, than which to learned ears nothing 
 can be more perfect ; nor can anything be discovered 
 which is wanting or redundant. Poesy full of enigmas 
 (between which, on Plato's testimony, no one distin- 
 guishes) he so studied, exhausted, and expressed, that
 
 GRIM A L DPS FUNERAL OR A TION. 5 
 
 within the first threshold of his youth he composed 
 Emblems, Epigrams, Elegies, Comedies, and divers other 
 poems, so gay, so pleasing, so elegant, that nothing could 
 be more cleverly done. The studies of Mathematical 
 demonstrations, of Medicine, of Philosophy, of Theology, 
 he so embraced that, concerning any one thing in them, 
 he could discourse so copiously, lucidly, and without pre- 
 paration, as to appear to have been always labouring on 
 that one subject alone. But in what pertains to the 
 knowledge of Greek literature he so bestowed all his 
 study and talent on the imitation of it, and so conjoined 
 Latin with Greek, that not less would his Greek than his 
 Latin speech abound in ornaments of every kind. This 
 fact is indicated in many of his speeches, as well in those 
 written by him in Greek as in those translated out of 
 Greek into Latin. Moreover, some Epigrams exist very 
 elegantly composed, and, as I hope,* very soon about to 
 receive publication. 
 
 But the very noble science of war (on the guardianship 
 and protection of which rests a serene and tranquil state 
 of happy peace) he so understood, that you would have 
 said he had been accustomed to do nothing, except to 
 take up a station for a camp, to surround the same with 
 a rampart, to beat off the enemy, and to draw up an army 
 in array. Lastly, that I may bring together my remarks 
 into a few words, there is no one branch of knowledge of 
 which distinct traces may not be found in him. 
 
 Since, in all these kinds of learning, he far excelled 
 others, and already excited among men the highest ad- 
 miration, he determined that his own genius, so ready and 
 copious, should be no longer spent on these subjects, nor 
 should his divine memory of things and words be employed 
 upon them, in which he much surpassed Cyrus, Mithri- 
 dates, and Charmides ; but from these pursuits, which 
 are worthy of a liberal-minded man, he turned aside, 
 when somewhat advancing in age, to a choicer kind of 
 knowledge. 
 
 * A hope not yet fulfilled.
 
 6 GRIMALDPS FUNERAL ORATION. 
 
 Wherefore he thoroughly gave himself up to the most 
 sacred wisdom, that of the Civil Law, altogether devoted 
 himself to it, and upon it placed all care, labour, industry, 
 and, lastly, all desire. To this pursuit he had not in his 
 youth given up much time, yet the honours of the Juris- 
 consult he attained in less than the seventh year, with the 
 highest commendation of learned men. To Milan, his 
 true native country, which has always flourished in fame, 
 and in glory, and in learning, and in warlike praise, he 
 soon betook himself; and there, for almost three entire 
 years, he was engaged in the courts as an advocate, with 
 so great an increase of fame, that his gate, like that of 
 Scipio Nasica of old or of Quintus Mutius, was daily 
 thronged by a crowd of citizens and by the splendour of 
 the highest men. 
 
 His singular learning no longer lay hidden in darkness, 
 but was placed in the light of Gaul, in the eyes of Italy, 
 and in the ears of all families and nations. Being sent 
 for by the people of Avignon to fill the public office of 
 professor, he was constituted Count Palatine of the sacred 
 Court of the Lateran by Leo X., the chief pontiff; and 
 though up to that day he had never mounted the Chair, 
 he deserved the stipend of six hundred crowns. Here he 
 tarried some years, and the glory of his name so filled the 
 circle of the lands, that Francis, the most Christian king 
 of the French, called him to the University of Bourges, 
 with a doubled honorarium, and with one thousand two 
 hundred crowns assured. 
 
 He was soon sent for from distant countries, and on his 
 resisting, and in some way refusing, Franciscus Sforza, 
 duke of Milan, lawfully laid his hands upon him, and 
 honouring him with the fullest senatorial rank, obtained 
 from him the promise that he would teach at Pavia. A 
 little after he sought Bologna, the foster-child of studies, 
 and there being most honourably received, he was for four 
 years Professor of Civil Law, with a mighty concourse of 
 hearers. Being recalled to Pavia (at the command of the 
 most serene Emperor Charles), he resided here for some 
 years ; but, prevailed upon by the very ample promises
 
 GRIM A LDP S FUNERAL OR A TION. 7 
 
 of Duke Hercules, he next visited Ferrara, and raised up 
 the prostrate university. At length, after many toils in 
 wandering about, he returned to Pavia, and here placed 
 his seat and home, and taught three or four years at most, 
 with a constant attendance of learned men flowing in from 
 every side. 
 
 Lastly, after suffering from pain of the feet for some 
 years, at first indeed slightly (as happens), but soon more 
 severely and frequently, he laboured under continual fever 
 in addition. In the course of fourteen days gradually 
 worn out, with his senses always sound until he perished, 
 he met death on the nth of January, not exceeding his 
 fifty-eighth year. He rendered back and bequeathed his 
 soul to God, from whom he received it ; and when cast 
 down from his high home, and as if sunk to the earth, he 
 gave his body to the ground, not without the greatest 
 weeping and lamentation of all. 
 
 But why do I commemorate weeping and lamentation ? 
 Milan mourns, Pavia grieves, Italy sits in the dust, France 
 is afflicted ; finally, all provinces complain that so divine 
 a Jurisconsult has been deprived of this life. For whoever 
 has so clearly and elegantly interpreted the answers of 
 Jurisconsults, the constitutions of Princes, the sacred 
 canons of Pontiffs ? Who, up to this very time, has 
 written respecting all these so truly and eloquently? 
 Has he not indeed added to the knowledge of the Jaws 
 (of which it is the sister) such great eloquence as none 
 of the ancients possessed, and as to none of the moderns 
 has it been granted to hope for, or even distinctly to 
 desire ? This fact is abundantly declared by the Para- 
 doxes, by the Balancings of Accounts, by those books, 
 most celebrated in the discourse of all men, concerning 
 the Signification of words and things, and by countless 
 other works of his, which we have daily in our hands. 
 Him, therefore, shall we not mourn? His death shall we 
 not deplore ? The true and genuine glory and ornament 
 of our most sacred Civil Wisdom being extinguished, shall 
 not we complain ? 
 
 O wretched and miserable race of mortals ! O cruel
 
 8 GRIMALDFS FUNERAL ORATION. 
 
 fates, lying in ambush for all good men ! O night on 
 which he breathed forth his soul, then, of all times, the 
 sharpest and most bitter ! So hast thou not despoiled us 
 of a very precious gift divinely sent down to us from 
 heaven ? So hast thou not taken away the pleasure 
 beyond belief which we gained from his most agreeable 
 companionship ! So hast thou snatched away from us 
 unawares the oracle of the whole Christian Common- 
 wealth! Now, of a truth, has Italy been despoiled of 
 its brightness and peculiar flower, Milan of its splendour, 
 every family and nation of its very clearest light. Voice, 
 strength, words will fail me if I should wish to declare 
 aloud how miserable, how wretched, how bitter to us may 
 the death of this man be. 
 
 Already I seem to myself to hear Jurisprudence, 
 mourning and cast down, to break forth into these words : 
 Where is the resplendent brightness ? where the assured 
 protection ? where Andrea Alciati, my only safety ? 
 Where is he, who, by the elegance of his speech, began 
 to increase me when I was lessened, and by the greatness 
 of his genius, by the gravity of his judgments, and by the 
 power of his eloquence, has strengthened me when I was 
 weakened, defended me when I was tossed and driven 
 about by many injuries, came to assist me when thrown 
 headlong, drew me forth from the waters when sinking, 
 and raised me up when afflicted and lost ? 
 
 O ruthless death ! hast thou not so suddenly envied me 
 this glorious light as almost to bring upon me eternal 
 darkness ? Hast thou not hurled against his body so 
 bloody a dart, that pristine savagery might deform me 
 afresh ? Hast thou not exercised against him so detestable 
 a tyranny as to despoil me of all my ornaments ? 
 
 But whither is this oration sliding ? or what end at length 
 has been proposed to me ? Is it that I should help your 
 sorrow by my own tears? Is it, indeed, that I should 
 console you with my oration, and drive away your grief? 
 To greater length, therefore, I will not proceed ; I will 
 recall myself to my proper duty and purpose. Clear away 
 your sorrow, my hearers, and lay aside all memory of
 
 GRIMALDl'S FUNERAL ORA TION. 9 
 
 grief ! Death made ready, set before us, defined, is in like 
 manner common to all, as a true debt of nature : 
 
 ' ' We owe to death ourselves and ours ; 
 Nor does it spare beauty, riches, or imperial powers." 
 
 For 
 
 " Pale death with equal foot beats at poor men's cottages, 
 And at the towers of kings. " 
 
 If, indeed, according to the truest sentiment of philo- 
 sophers, we wish to examine this whole matter a little 
 deeper, we shall very readily judge that life, and not 
 death, is true. For (as it is in Euripides) 
 
 " Who knows not that to live is but to die ? * 
 And that by mortals, to die is deemed to live ?" 
 
 For, from a certain wise man we have heard that we are 
 now dead, and that for us the body is our sepulchre ; and 
 that then we truly live, when we are liberated from this 
 dark prison of earth and emigrate to the citadel of heaven. 
 Now, in what way can this be named life, which, like a 
 most stormy sea, is daily tossed by tempests and waves ? 
 The ancient Fathers, thinking excellently of this very 
 thing, have compared such a life to a game of dice. 
 Nor, undeservedly, has Euripides named it " one little 
 day;" Phalereus Demetrius, "a point of time;" but, best 
 of all, Pindar, " the dream of a shadow." 
 
 Now at length therefore lives lives the divine Alciati, 
 and instead of this mortal condition, he has obtained 
 immortality of life, and that glory which can scarcely be 
 bounded by heaven itself. He has left behind the very 
 firmest safeguards of virtue, which alone, when all other 
 things are lost, can (as M. Tully testifies) support them- 
 selves. For in the state of mortals there is no stability, 
 no constancy so great, as in those things which are ad- 
 ministered by virtue. And virtue is wont to beat back 
 the cruelty of death, and (as it is said) is fastened by the 
 deepest roots, which by no force can ever be overthrown, 
 
 * " Tit; ' olftv ft TO rji> ^f v ftrrl KarOavtlv, 
 To KarQavtiv Si i/v vo/ittrai /3poro7<;." 
 
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 io GRIM ALDPS FUNERAL ORATION. 
 
 and from no place can be removed. He will live will 
 live, undoubtedly, while the race of men, while nations, 
 while peoples shall exist ; and his life shall remain vigor- 
 ous in the memory of all ages, posterity will nourish it, 
 eternity itself will always defend it, nor with respect to his 
 praises will any age ever be silent. For his writings are of 
 immortality, not of time. 
 
 His home indeed he has changed, but what this 
 wandering pilgrim did not possess how firm and stable 
 is the home to which he has attained ! Nature has 
 granted us an inn for sojourning awhile, not for inhabiting. 
 Us mortals she has left exposed to calamities, dangers, 
 diseases, accidents, anxieties, inconveniences, faults, in- 
 juries ; that, immortal herself, she might behold those 
 heroes immortal, and pass from toil to rest, from pain to 
 painlessness, from disease to health, from this short age to 
 perpetual life. 
 
 Make, therefore, an end to tears, nor any longer bewail 
 the death of our Preceptor, for whoever does that deplores 
 that himself is mortal, and (just like Theophrastus when 
 dying, as recorded by M. Tully) he accuses nature. Alciati 
 has died in his native land, in which it is an illustrious 
 thing to die ; and before he gave up the last breath of life, 
 he so arranged all his affairs that his fortune (which he 
 had obtained, not as a Theban of old, one Ismenias, 
 mentioned by Plato, but by diligence and virtue) he left 
 by will to his heir, Francisco Alciati, whose pure and 
 spotless morals, penetrating genius, and singular know- 
 ledge as well of the more polished literature as of the 
 Civil Law, all men commemorate. 
 
 So, lastly, to cleanse his soul from all defilement and 
 spot of sin, and with those sacred rites which are wont to 
 be used by such as depart religiously, he desired to placate 
 towards himself the powers above and his own household 
 deities, and to perform the offices due to God, so that no 
 one ought of right to grieve concerning his death. 
 
 And now, illustrious Sirs ! let us all, stretched at the 
 feet of that very illustrious man, cast ourselves down, 
 beseech God, Best and Greatest, that into the assembly
 
 GRIMALDFS FUNERAL ORATION. u 
 
 and number of blessed souls He may place the man who, 
 during his years, pressed earth (as Homer says), not as a 
 useless heap of clay,* but, his tale of life well told out, 
 he left to posterity an honourable memorial of himself, 
 who, with such great humanity, wisdom, and piety, has 
 finished the course of life by nature circumscribed to men, 
 and who, lastly, with earnestness so great, has ever observed 
 all things which pertain to the most excellent Christian. 
 
 The Oration of Alexander Grimaldi, of A ntipolis, for 
 Alciati. 
 
 Tell me, I pray, what inferior man the tomb conceals. 
 Or whether the great and renowned Andrea Alciati ? 
 
 It possesses of all men, in truth, the noblest, 
 
 And to speak simply, by Jove ! the most illustrious. 
 
 Earth hides the body, which also here is laid ; 
 But of Alciati indeed immortal is the glory. 
 
 THE END.f 
 
 H. G. 
 
 HEATHFIELD, KNUTSFORD, 
 July 2'jt/i, 1871. 
 
 apovpr). 
 
 " Tow 'AXfl-di'Spov Fpt/idXcov avniroXiTavov elf "AXiaarov." 
 Grimaldi's Greek stanza, besides certain inaccuracies, is so illegibly printed 
 that the text itself is uncertain. It is subjoined, with some slight corrections. 
 
 EiVs /wot Seop.ui K' oXe'yov nva KaXinrrti, 
 
 TJ piyav dvSptiav r tKo\ov 'A\Kiarov ; 
 \iivoi' i\ti avSpiav Sfiirov Ku\\iorov dirdvTMV 
 
 WOT' dXXuif tiirHv vtj Am icXtivoraroj/ 
 aw/in Si yjj KpvTTTtt, TTJVOV KUI ivGddt Ktlrat, 
 
 dXX<i fjiiv 'AXtrtdrou a/ifiporov tan icXtof.
 
 y^xv^v\\\\\\v\v\>\\\\v\\\\\\v).v\ijx> 
 
 OFLATIO 
 
 FVNEBRIS 
 
 IN FJ^NERE D. 
 A N D R E AE 
 
 A L C I A T.I 
 
 S1ED1OLAN. 
 
 luri/con, Clarifsimi & C*(are Maieftau's 
 
 Scnatoris IHuftrifs/mi Ab Alexandro 
 
 Grimaldo Antipolitano habits 
 
 Ticira In Kde Cathedrali ad 
 
 XI I II. Cal, Febr, 
 
 M;D.L,
 
 ORNATISSIMO VIRO 
 
 NICOLAO GRIMALDO FRATRI, 
 ALEXANDER 
 
 VM ad xiiij col. fekr* ntdgni illius uiri Andrew Alcidti 
 fuo mdgis quint noftro tempore uitdfunfti inter itum in 
 tdc catbedrdlidcplordfiemfrtttcr orndtifiime,fuerunt g 
 mnlti ntdgn* autoritatis uiri^ui me cum iuhcre iurefuo 
 poficnt multif prccibus rogamcrunt , ut omtiotiem 4 me 
 hdbium diuulgarem, ne t<tm diuinus poftbominum memo 
 fi<on Iwifcofultus nullius funebri ortttione hie cclebratus fuifte uideretur. 
 qu&us cum id diu multtimcfc dt ingenij mcifacttltcitibus mtgnopere dubita* 
 dftiegafiemjne tamen tuque honoris neque etatis excufaio ob hoc laborc 
 uendicttuit.ltUm itdqe inpublicwnproponcrc decrcui.tietyie me tieracliti 
 fentcntid d> hoccoticilio reuocnuit quicane ignotos aUrtrare^ergti notes uc 
 to mitiorem efie dicebat.Siccfc inuidmm nouos homines ut nuper eueftosin* 
 fcfarcjnnotos out em i<tm efiemitioreM.M.(tlo enim cum Untorum mrorum 
 ftudioflm ot>fecHtus,dcfider<triprudentiAm menmfifi id denegarim benctio 
 lentitm. Eft dittem* nuioribus no&ris diuinitus inuentum ttque mftitutii, 
 ut ft quid in lucem eddturdiquis potifiimum mximit quibufddm bonis 
 infer uftut CT orndtus eligdtur 9 quopdtrono& defenforeid obtrc* 
 fatorum infeftdtioncm notice formiddns, tuto inpublicum exert. 
 Qttod cum dninto meo diu uerftrem, tefrdttr touniifimc ex 
 cunftis eruditis delegi,quem CT dQftritufinguldri t et hum* 
 nitdte incredibili^cr multdrumrerum ufu dtque expert* 
 ntid(qudtum in tudm <ctdtemcddcrepoteik) reliquis 
 longe pre&dre iudicdui. (^ttdpropter te oro atque 
 obteftor, ut hue ingenij meifoctum quern certe 
 Cdiididifiimo dnimo tibi nuncupdui Utdfron 
 te qudlem mhifemper preftiti&i dccipids 
 V meum hoc munufctdum beneuole ut 
 foles t compleftttre. Vdlc.
 
 ORATIO FVNEERIS 
 HABITA TICINI IN FV* 
 
 KERE EXCELLENTISSIMIIVRISC. 
 
 A ND R E AE AJLC,JA TJ I N AE DE C A* 
 
 THEDRALI AB ALEJANDRO 
 
 URIAIALDQ ANTIpOLlTANO. 
 
 fro dolor yCbriflianorum 
 P^espublica itiri omnium Je* 
 culorum > otnnis memorue 3 
 doflrina C7* uirtitte fectle 
 principisi^fndrex Alciati 
 dccejjunuper acceperit^ne 
 if quid? m cuijumma cofiam 
 fy diccndi natura largita eJl^non dico complefk 
 crandojjedpcrcertjcrc loqucndo ulla ratione poterit. Qvf 
 tmm ttmpiam in bominc tanta uitxfiit integritasttanta coo 
 flantudtanta dcnicb bonarii omnium artium cogttitio? Quif 
 ilium nijlpcnitus ineptus quodam diwno Jfiirttti inilinfllim 
 fuifie ncgabit*. Qiiod cvm diligentcr mccum reputarem hoc 
 mebercule dicedi munerejiiperfidcre decreueram. Etenittt 
 Jciebam mibi coram fr equenti gravity doflorum bominum 
 conjpeflu CT cotijefitij (jiiantus mca mcmoria mm^iiam iillo 
 in loco fuitjdiceudumfore.Itay time bam ne id me muneris 
 jiijcepij?ejaudaciauol>ispotius qtiam objeqwumjcmerita$<& 
 officiant uideretitr. cjiiod ego qui CT ingcnij.acuniinej. C^ iu 
 dicij prawtate? CT artc autjludto dicendi ( in cpiibus nott 
 
 Ay
 
 muhumjane tcmporis adolefeens adbuc impendi) procul a 
 wbis omnibus rehnqtior ems bominis laudcs^ui omni gene 
 re uirtutis maxima floruit oratione comple&hatcfe bums au 
 toritate loci, in quern nififumma facultas afteri debuerat? 
 contingert atiderem. Verum 'Pa.tres \Mplifi.fiJzmel in* 
 Jlitiiti met canjam ratiommty cognotieritis? intdligetis me 
 no bum muneris obtundifiduciayfednc Msgrati dijcipuli 
 in Preceptor em officium in me defideraretj bane orandi 
 frouinciatn Jujcepiljc.f-fic enim nojiiosjolum^jed CT nos 
 omn?sGallos(tantum bumanitatis paturadederat^adeo di 
 turns et immortalibus ttteritis dcninxitjit obftri&os nos me 
 moria benefi'aorujemptiernaftippudere: debuijjet,fi (jitam 
 gratiam itiuo etjpiranti non habuimus(refirre enim nopo 
 tuimus ) mortuo memori mente cjttam maxima animi nojiri 
 capere pojjent nonperjolueremu$,eumfy aliqua oratione ct 
 lebraremtif. Qjt* licet uiri diuino ingenio^admirabili do 
 flrinajncredibtlicfe prudentia prxditijingulares eximuijcfe 
 uirttites potiusfit dicendo objcuratura, quam eius ampli* 
 tudinem illujlratura, malui tamen eloquentia in me requiri 
 qutimjiidnoftcerim inyrati animi uobis cflijttfpectus.lt* 
 litts enim mortem qui omnibus hominibus inter i^ffe exifltma* 
 dus eft, non lti&upublicofilum,fcdttiam monumentis effe 
 bonoranda pnto. Adeflote itaaj omnes animis (pri ade&is 
 corporibitS; quorum ora nidtufy non fine maxima, mentis 
 dele&ttione contfplor, mefe panca de florentifimi 2W= 
 ceptoris nojlri Awe/re^ \lciati laudibus dicente >attentifi* 
 mis animis fimma cii benignitate andite * M agnuproftflo
 
 city drdifum boditrno die mibi onus ejl impojttum audito* 
 res> omnium gmjunt? fierunt* trimt, longt maximii atfy 
 clanjjimiim uirum laudandi Excitanda ita& tnens et attol 
 lenda e&jtt CT uos tantcs ret dignitatem p ercipiatis auri* 
 bus^ct nos mcntc cogitations^ comprebcnfam oratioe com 
 fkflamur.Qiiidfaciam^md primum querarfVnde fottp 
 jimtim exordiar? I am jane nonjoliim commoiteor ammo* 
 Jed omnibus artidnis contremtjco^nc^c ulla. pars cor ports 
 mcijatisjiium ojpcium prxjlare potefl. ^^fnincredibiliii 
 mrtutwn Jiiarum mem^riam dicendo refricabo? commit* 
 mmfe dolorcm vrl mocrorcm potius^uo omnes non dtfline. 
 mur aut dtudlinnir, fed opprimimnr ac ardemw orations 
 titgcbo? ^Tt tier cor ft bocfecerojie qiti uejirhm omnium 
 animos plus diuimjattf rfl conjlcrnatos conjolari debram* 
 accrhe tnjlia.v rccor datioc penitus debilite &jrah%am. 
 Quis cmm ^4^l:i<Lti cuiu$ nnius uirtutibiis pares omnium 
 hommum uirt'.ttcs nulla im^jicula babueriit morte noita 
 conficiatur, nt ncfy modus ne< inter mijjiotacry mar fine fi 
 ill! a letiatio future ui^atur^Nam qtii ilium dpuero injpi* 
 cere et or dirt dprincipio uoliieritjhttmaniingeni/ modum 
 exccfitjjejacik iudicabit.Vtx emcunabulis educlus^cajum 
 tn.tjpciyjitmma: inqcnij indohsjummxfy ttirtittisjigna cfe 
 dit omnibus jit de illo quod dc Ifocr.apud 7*latone Socra 
 tes augur atits eft, omncsprxdixijje ttideantur. Nefy uero 
 nnnjicd expcctattwrn tefui conataratjufhnere duntaxat 
 ac. tncri potuit,Jed ommno wcit. His enim wgcnij fontibus 
 'autus cum atatc aliduantulum >rocefitjjet?nojblttm ar
 
 its quibtif cetas puerilis ad bmanitatem infirmarifolet fri 
 moribus labris guftauit ct extremis ut aiunt y digitis attigit* 
 fed ita in Grammaticorum laboriojbs? canones? Qratorum 
 coloreSjDialeflicorimt argtttias? Mitficorumtonos ^x^^ 
 rithmeticorum numeroSj Geometrarum dimcnfiones^^f^ 
 flrologorum motus^ Medicorum? * ' A \ ? ^ * * * t 
 fbilojofkortim abditas fententidt? Theologorum dmina 
 doffmatajn otnne dem(tiejirtgu1a perjequar^diciphnarii 
 qcnus aciem mentis itorfirtiter intendit M plenam nondum 
 attiffcns pnbertate amplisftmis monimetis memorM nominis 
 fii cofecrarit.ScripRt emadhuc adolrjcens pmultas oratio 
 nesetdeclamationcs adeo cocinnisetacutisjetetysgrambiif 
 tiwrbis ornatas et ferpolitasjit nemo figmeti fncify-p ue* 
 rtlisjed literate Jeneflutis plcnas nifi bcbts comumtife lite* 
 raru et politioris bumanitatis expers diiudicet. Ittejl e mm 
 Genus qitfiddamfermtfnis ita liqiiidum,fu(iim et profiiicnsjtt 
 aureum or ationis flume manifejto deprchcndatJtr^tt^ Atti 
 c ornm acwnenjelegantia,breititas etfacette agnojcantirr 
 fftjloriam pairiam adeo utrt jpure^et ornate confexttit* 
 vttippareatqtiadam in illo uelut Sa.llujlta.na brenitas^ua, 
 tiibtl apud aures eruditas potejl ejje perfi&iusjit nee quod 
 dcfit'ncc qnodredundettniiemripojjit. 'Poefitn awigmatnz 
 flenamfytaquiuistejk 'Platone non dtgnojcityji'c didicit? 
 baufit* cxprefiitjut Emblemata, Epigrammata? Elegias? 
 Comadias et alia dm rja p wtnatajtia-fefhiiajita concinna 
 ita elegantia nihilttt fieri pojjit argutiusjntra primum in* 
 wntntis limtnconfewrit f Matfcma&arw
 
 ionum> medicine? T>hilbjophi<t; & Tbtologt*? fludiaffC 
 ftmghxus el y ut dequacumque re ita copiofe lucnl:nttr C?* 
 tximprouijo difiereret? utinuna quahbetfala&'Jemper 
 labor 'ajjc utderetur.Quidautetn adGrecarum litttrarutn 
 cognitionem attinet? ita. omne (itumjludium at^nt ingtniwn, 
 ad car urn imitationem coritnlit> Latinaque cum greets fie 
 coniimx.it> ut non minus Gr<?ca ([iidtn Latina illitts oratfo 
 omnibus ornamemtis abundaret. Id indicant turn pleraque 
 ab co %r<zcejcriptti tut gratis latins rtddita. Qjiin etui 
 non nnllcL extant Epigramata clegater admodti cojcripta 
 propedt?m(jitjpero)pit[>licn acceptor a. Ret ante militaris 
 nobilisjimXjcietia (icuius tutela et prajidiofereus trayilluf 
 fy beatxpcias flatus ayejcitjta calluitjit illunibilnificaftris 
 locucapere-,eade nalh cingerCjboJles propuljart^ exerdtfi 
 inflmtrefilitumfiiffe dixifjes. Nulla dtniq? ars tSlQtt M 
 fanca conjzra) cnuis non exprejja. tieftigia apud illii rcfc. 
 riaiur. Quibits omnibus difciplinis cum c<zteri$ logeantccel 
 hretjiimamfy bominu admirat ion e ia excitarttjfitum ipfas 
 ingtnmm tarn facile et copiojum in bis diutins conjitmendum^ 
 memoria rerum ei uerborum dtuina^qua Cyro^Mithrida 
 th Chdrrnidxtfi multum excelluit) adhibendam non efle iudi 
 cauif:fcd ab Hs&rtibus quxjimt libero hominc dignx, ad 
 c leyantiorem Jcientiam <etdtt ahquanttilum progreditnte 
 defluxtt. Qjiapropter janflisjimx ciuilijapietia?je penitus 
 dediditj illije totitm addix.it jn ta omnem cur am 3 labor em* 
 in Jiiflriam, /Indium deniqiie totum collocaitit. Cui dim non 
 ttwltum tcmpons adolejcens tribuifletj irifignia Inrijconfilti
 
 citins feptennio Maxima doctorum uirorum predications 
 ajjecutiis eft . M. ediolanii germanam patriam \fucfima 3 
 duo: (rloria, qu# doclrina> qiice bcllica laiidcjemp floruit 
 moxfe recepttj ubi trienniuin Jere integrum adiiocants 
 in for o tantafama celebritate uerjatus e<fl? ut illius ianua 
 qiiemadmodum ohm Scip.Nafic* autQ^Miiti^maxima, 
 qnotidie ciuiumfrequentia T Jumtnorum bomimtmjpkndo 
 re cdcbrareturS2uiusjingiilaris eritditio cum iam non in 
 tenebris later tt^ed in luce Gallic? ,oculis Ita\uz>atfy in an 
 ribus omniiigentiim et nationum pvjita ejjet.ab \ucmonen 
 fibits adpublicwn profltendi mimus accerfittis? Comes "Pa 
 latinusfocra Later anef sluice d Leone x.TPont. M ax> 
 conjlittitus efljzr cum nunqiiam ad eum diem Cathedram 
 ajcendijsetj Hipendium jexcentorum meruit? ibi<fi aliquot 
 annos commoratus^ita orbemterrarummminis Jiiiglo* 
 ria implant? tit ilium Francifcus F rancor um JZex Cbri= 
 Jliantffimus diiplicato honor ario et mille ducettfy prtftfiti? 
 in Biturigenfem Academiam uocarit. kccerjiuit mox dlu 
 de longinquis regionibns? rtrjiflenti^ <& quodammodo ter* 
 giuerjanti iurejiio inecit manum Francifcus SF . Mcdio* 
 lanenfis Duxjamplifiimacfijenatoria dignitate ornauit& 
 ut Ticini doceret ab eo impetrauit, Rononiam Studiorum 
 alumnam paitlo poflpttijt in qua honor ificentifiime excep 
 tits (juatuor annos magno aitditoru concurjii Ins civile pro 
 fcjjtis efl.Ticimtm reuocatus (ita iubente Car oh Imfcra 
 tore Seremfc) aliquot annos hie rejedit. FerrariamDit* 
 cw Htrciilis amplifimis coditionibus adduclns deinceps in
 
 iiifit,~V po&ratam ^fcafemiam txtnlit Tandem pofl 
 infinites pcregriuatianis labor es Ticinum rcncrjus^bic Ce- 
 des ac domicdmm collocauit; docuitife tresatttqaatuor an- 
 nos adlummamya/liJua doflorum mrorwn frec^icntia undi 
 <j?/e conflucntiitm. Denicp diim pednm dolor e aliquot attnos 
 hiitier quidem prittta (utfit ) fitting mox ac crebrius labo 
 raret coiittnuafckreadiunflaypaulatim itttra deccm et dua 
 ttior diesconfi&us? intcgris tiffidum inter iretjemper jetifi 
 bus ydd tertium Idus lamiar .quinqiiagefiitmim oflauwn an 
 mm non excedens mortem obijt y <tnimumfy T)cod quo ac* 
 ccperat>ex ahifitmo domicilio JeprcJJus et qiiaji demerfos 
 in tcrram, corpus fauna no fine tnaximojletngcmttitcj} o///- 
 nium rcddiltt ac rch^uit. ^ft quidftetiimgemituMife com 
 memoro? Lu^et M ediolanwih tuaret Ticinum^ Sqt/alc t 
 Italia^ afiUclatur Gxllia>otnncs dci:i prouinci# tarn di* 
 uinum Ivrifconjultum orbatii bac uita qucrimtur.Qws cnim 
 ////op adcojlnccrc atque. ehganter lurifcdnjitltoru rrfion* 
 fa, 'Principum confktitticncsj 'Pontijiciim fecros canones 
 efl inter prttatus*. Qjiis dc Ins omnibus it* acre ac dtjerte 
 ad bxc itfau? tcmpora Jcripjti? Num tantam eloqttentiam 
 le^nmjcicntix ( wtwduajijoror efl) conitinx.it ^uaniam 
 nxluc- ex ueteribus quifati babuit? ne^ue expofleris altciti 
 fyerare iiel plane ctiam optare datum e/??7c/TaOT^ / eA^ > 
 I)ift>uncTi<mes, libridli omnium fermone cehbratifemi Je. 
 mrborti CT reriimflgnificationeJZr alia, eius infnita, ope* 
 ra <^i quotidic in manibus habemus abiide dedarai,JFfSc 
 igttur non luge.bimus f Him interitum non deplorabimus ?
 
 cxtinflum uerum Wgermattti fan&fcm* tiuuisfapienti* 
 decus & ornamentum non (Jueremur? O mortalium genus 
 miferiiaccalamitojiim. OfortiMxtclumacerbitm. Ofeta 
 crudelid bonis omnibus injldiantid. O noflem qua. animam 
 ejjJatiit omnium temporu acerrimam atque acerbifiimam* 
 Stccine nos tarn preciojb munere dminitvs e cor/o ad nos dc 
 lapjbfydia&i? Siccint noluptatcm incredibilem qua ex il 
 lius iucuudifiima cofiietudlne capicbamus ademifti*. Siccinc 
 oraculum totius Ghrifliana; Reipub. infyeranubus nobis 
 eripniftiZ Nitnc mebercule candor e ZTjlore proprio Ita 
 liafflendorefio MedtQianumhimineprxcldrifiimo om* 
 nesgentes CT nationesjimtpriuat#.fife vox* me later a? 
 me uerba deficient JicliMm mijcr^udm calamitofiis^uam^ 
 fa acerbus fit nobts huius uiri obitus uocifcrari uelim. Jam 
 tnihi uideor atidirt luriforudtntiam motrentem O" demtfia 
 in has uoces ertimpere. f^bi Jplendidifiimus candor*, ubi 
 prxjidium firmifiimumt ubi umcum columen men Andreas 
 Mciatus efKQui mejliijermonis clegantia.jnQtnijmagni 
 tulmejitdicij grauitate?dtcendi facilitate diminuta adaux.it? 
 debilitate confirmauit; multis imurijs iaflata atfy 
 defcnditjpr#cipitantijiibttemt>demerjam extultt, a 
 per dtta er exit? O immanent mortem, Tu ne mibi b^c pro: 
 clarum lumen tarn fubito inuidifli; vtpcne xternas mibitc* 
 nebras adfirm?Tu ne adeo cruentum in tllius corpus telS 
 inieciflhtit priflina barbaries me denuo dc forward*. Tu 
 ne tyranidem deteflabilem in ilium (ic exercui/lijit me offt 
 nibus ornamendfjfroliarrs? Veruin^uo Iwc dclabitur or*
 
 lirfaiit quis.tenJrtn milri finis c&propoJitttsfAn titmaro* 
 rcm uiflrum lacrymis mcis adiwiemt An nero nt oratione, 
 mca uos conjokr doloremfy dcfellamtLongws itaque non 
 progredtarjncty admeum munus penjinnfy rcuocabo.hb 
 JlerQite luclum anditorcs? C^ mccroris memoriam omnem 
 deponite. Morsparata^propojita^deji'mta^^ex eqtio 
 commimis cfl omnibus quaff nature uerum debitwn. 
 Debemur mortinos noJlradue. 
 Nee farm* JKC ofibus^ncc imperi/Sj parcit,. 
 
 Etenim 
 
 'Pallida mors acjiio pulfatpedepaiiperumtabernas.. 
 Regtamfe turrets. 
 
 f^eriim fi paulo dltius iuxta 'Pbilofifhorum utrifiiniam. 
 Jintentiam rem bane totam perjcrtttari iielimitSy uitam ejje 
 mram & non mortemJacilime.iudicabimus.Nctm (tit e& 
 apud Etiripidem ) 
 
 T i?^* i/fp 1 1 jo ^Cj//x irV f'st K* rflxiM^ 
 
 TO K*Tfl*\H* / Jtl Cfl||fTW jb^CTJ'i?. 
 
 Et mine forte re uera morttdfiimus.Accepimus enim if<t 
 piente quodatn nos mine mortuos zjjejcorpiisfy noflrumfc* 
 fulchrnm ejje nobis? GT time nos uere mere? cum ab hoc 
 cxco Terr arum career e liberation cceli arcem emivra* 
 
 X T*y ' ^"^ 
 
 mm. Na quo tandem modo uita h<ec appellaripotcfl >qir<c 
 ueluti turbidentifimiim pdagiis., totfrocellis CT fluflibiis 
 quotidie taflaturf qiiatn Talorum iafkbtis ueterestth Pa* 
 tres dc bac re optime fentientes compcirartmt. Nc([ut cant 
 immerito Euripides diewlam unamSPIxikrcus Demetrius 
 
 By
 
 temporis funflmn,, optime uero omnium PinJarus 
 fomnium appcllauit. Nunc dentuw igitur niuit mint diuinus 
 i^riciatiisr pro mtrtah conditions, mix immortalitatcj 
 O* cam gloriam tyuz nix cotlo capi fotsfi cfl conjccuttts. 
 Relicpiit cnim liirtutis pritji'diajirmifiima qua ferditis re 
 bus omnibus folafe C M * Tullio tefle *)Jiittent<tnt. Nul 
 la cnim in re mortaliwn tanta ineflfirmitasjanta confix 
 tia> tit bis in rebus (pt<e mrttite qrerttfftur.Et uirtus cnMi= 
 totem mortis propulferejolctj ZFQit dicitur^efl altifemis 
 dcfixa radicibus; qua: nulla imcfi ui labcjuflari nitllo iin<j$ 
 loco duttoumpotefl.ViuetjHtoet <bfe&6}diiv?nus bomaiS* 
 du {renteSjdii poptili cxtabut^et itita illiits mentor iajeailorii 
 omnium vtocbitypofkfitas ahtjpfe &ternitarfc/njp tntiichi 
 ttir n? ulla im^^tas dejiiis latidibus coticcjcct. Scripts 
 cnim illius immortalitatis non atatisJimtJDomicilium c^uide 
 mntauit,Jedutjirmum ZFjlabilc quod bictanqua per egri-- 
 nns non babebat coje^ucrctttr. Commorandi cnim nobts no, 
 tura diiierjorium non babttandt dedit.Nos mortaks caU- 
 mitatibusjpericuls y morbisj cafibus 3 curis 3 tocoittoJifjati/f* 
 iniurijS) obnoxios rtlupwt immortalcs illos beroas immor 
 talis inuijeret) ex. labor 'e ad ^uictcm^x dolor e adindolcn- 
 tutm^ex morbo adjanitatem?tx xtate brent adpcrpetuam 
 defluxit. Lacrymarum itacpie finem alqiiemfacite* nec[ue 
 mortem 'Prxceptoris noflri diiituis deflorate. Qui enim id 
 tgitjfe mortalrm effedefiet^ac naturam cpiemadmodum 
 Theophraftus mortem apud M '. Tullittm ) accujat* 
 Mortwis efl in fatria^ in <[ua dectdere prxdarum cfl
 
 e atifcqnam cxtrcmntit uite fiiritum cdiderttjta omntct 
 compojiiit, turn fortuna rum Juarwn (" quas non tit dim 
 Tbcbanus JJinctiKis aptid 'Pi atone rn)jcd ddi^cntia O uir 
 tutc faraucrat Francijcnm t^flciatiim bxredem tetfamc 
 to rcliqititj cuiiis candidos niiieosfe mores >inffenitim perfyi 
 caxj& (itigularcm turn liter arum biimamornm y tti,<i ctiam 
 Inrilcurilis peritiam omncs commcmorantj Ita dcnique <iui 
 mum omni labe CT macula pcccati expurgare? cumfy his 
 tyiiZ rite deccdcntilnts adbiberifohntjacris deos JibtJtJpe* 
 ros atdue manes placare^^ debit a off da Dfo fr<e&<tre 
 uoluit p ut de ciiis interim millnsuirz do I ere debcat. JNitttc 
 aittem niri percelcbrcs omms adpedes Jlrati iaceamus ob 
 jeer antes Drum Optimum Maximum ut cum quijitos 
 <inno$<non tT^iy *x3c? ^U ? K?. C utinquit Home nis *) ttr* 
 ramprefiitJcd qramter peracfa hac vita fobiilajhonefla 
 (id Mcmorictm poflens rcltqtdt? (pi tanta humamtate fru= 
 dcntia <& religione exipitum hoc nit a: curriculum bomrni- 
 bus d natura circntifcriptnm conficit^i tanto deniqutjht* 
 dio omnia qihcfintfifimi Chrtshamjutityjetttperobjertia 
 uit, in animorum bcatorum catum ac nwnerum rcponat. 
 
 ^l^r'^OJ cff'ofX*! T'oAl'-jfOV TUX a-iTfX 
 
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 ELEGIA DE MORTE 
 
 D, ANDRE AE ALCIATI, 
 
 ALEXANDRfM 
 ANTIPO LITANVM* 
 
 ctiperent magnos crudelia. fata Ticini 
 Eripere CF placida luce carere uiros. 
 
 . .. i . 
 
 Injigntm fubito firiunt mrtute 
 
 Jmpia nee terrisplura vukrcjintmt 
 
 Ocyus t^fndulphum rapiunt? morbisfe medcntcm 
 
 Diitine nobis eripit una dizs* 
 Nee U magnanimnm heroem Butiqclla tacebo 
 
 Q m facts interim fiuaMa cunflatuo. 
 
 ^^^^^ / *. 
 
 Nuper at^fndream nondumfatiata uocarunt 
 
 t^flciatum? 6 maqnis inuidafata uiris. 
 3>ierides lugent? moeret Tritonia 'Pallas, 
 
 'Deflet <&* txtinftum pulchra Thalia decus* 
 Et quertiur raptum nobis GriHows <^f polio 
 
 i*sflciatum> ac-tantiiit&a querela dei el+ 
 Nam <juis nondoleat circtim prxcordia tantunt 
 
 Fata bretti nobis eriputfie uirum % 
 Scd quid dico uirum ? longe mortalia quxjunt 
 
 f^Hcit? itt bunc bomimm nemofiifie putet* 
 Mortales nifit? nos ut dinina doceret, 
 
 Et peter et tandem regna relifta pritts. 
 
 npdficit* mentcmfy Deojatur bac dedit aura 
 
 Rcddidit CT terrx corpus inane luben$>
 
 Ingcnij monmentajtiitdmen amph retktofc 
 Heros, non tilla depcritura dir. 
 
 legite? CT ue fir is manibus ferfepe tentte* 
 Nomen C7 i^flciaii conce Itbrate precor. 
 
 F I N I S. 
 
 nd Franctfcurn Mojcbefwm Bergomtttje m ? Et 
 Joannem Raptiflam Nigntm? Socios 
 Cwfp Tafienftf 
 Domini. M. D. L.
 
 C A R M I N A 
 
 STEPHANI GVATIL 
 
 A LCI AT I LACRJME, 
 * 
 
 "p Rgoncmortalestot canms,torq^ choreas? 
 JQ, Durabum lungos oci'a veftra d/esf 
 Ergo ne delicias vixifleiripune licebit? 
 
 PJaiidicemrmqirifquam potfe videre pufatf* 
 Tanta nepeclton'biJs veftn's migrauenc vnquam 
 
 Leti'tiar'heu poznas omnia fine dabunt* 
 Mifcentur lachrym/s c^lcitia regna 5 mmantur 
 
 Exitium tern's lucfi/bus attonita* 
 lam prop ecozleftis, mund/etnii machiha diftat, 
 
 lam prope coeleftis macln'na fa<fia Chaos* 
 NunCjnunc mortafes dici ctrpmnro^ volunrcp 
 Co2licola?,lachrymas danrcj? fuperc|i fat/s* 
 Obijcit AN ORB AE cairiam mors dura dolons 
 
 Orbatumquenturnamine qtnicp fuo* 
 Hument pleura, flcumfufpenfatp barbita ducunt 
 
 Atcpmanum Phebuscontmet ipfe lyra. 
 Mutefcuncquerulae,non amplius xchera complent, 
 
 Deferuere fuum nunc Hel ycona Deoz 
 Edo<fle quondam Charites celebrare choreas 
 Confpec^um tacitenunclouis ante fedenc* 
 In tern's fpcculum refcrentem numirus vitro 
 
 Flaua Ceres deflet occubirifle Cut* 
 Doctrine exemplo Pallas viduatadolores, 
 
 Concipit heuquancos, quano^ Diana gemflv 
 Denique flere diem tarn crudi vulncns omnes 
 
 Conftituere Dei,conftituere Dear* 
 Vm'ca(edluc3iis inter folan'a reftant, 
 
 Ab fouequod mortis pracmia dignaferet*. 
 Omnia corruercnt, tern's habitare iuuaret, 
 Hoc fi non inter damaa leuamen erat* 
 
 B
 
 Humanas voces,lachrymasquin fimdcrc mallcnt, 
 
 Mallentnobifcum mortedolore pari* 
 Sad tc lam nepoteft vrgerere miTerrima tcllirs, 
 
 Iamnepoteftccelum,cura, dolorcp Deumc* 
 Re/pice quam viuum refecant tua vulnera, cmdam 
 
 Heu,heu te Innumeris moxcp facerc malis*. 
 Eft cfto quo posfintfanari vulnera Diiium, 
 
 Nonpofluntmedica fed tua dira mamr^ 
 lam fas eftcrebrisfpumantiaflcnbusora 
 
 Tcrjquater,jcterna credo ngare d/e* 
 Nuncgemitus,uocs,adeant fu/pin'a ccclum, 
 
 Perpetuamducantmoeftiti'amcp genar, 
 Nubila frons ducat,nulla hie dcmulceat auress 
 
 Res, res compofita non eget ifta coma*. 
 GaIlia,Gcrman^ gentes, Hifpania, veftd 
 
 Exicfj fignumnunctubafxua dedit* 
 Nunc oculos veftros, ammoscp auerrite, n'pam 
 
 Ticini afpiciant himma veftra cenus^ 
 Alloquar Italiamrcalcarcurrentibus addam: 
 
 Ah nimium (entit vulnere larfa grauiV 
 HuCjhuchorentesjhuCjhuc quofcuncp remiflbs 
 
 Intendant oculos feruat vcerque pohrs. 
 Q^uod lachrymas citra nequeo mem orare, vf debunt 
 
 A N D R E A M fupra ipem potuifle moru 
 Crediderat potuide morigenstempore nullo 
 
 Immortal is eratquod data fama v/ro* 
 Hoc ipfo afperius crudelcunt vulnera verum 
 
 Infperata virummorsquod iniqua rapit* 
 Inuida morsdedecusquod temanetinuida turpe, 
 
 Si qua fact's, nobis vulnera cxca fac/s. 
 Ille, ille Intadus contemptis fed/bus iftis 
 
 Fo^Iix fydereos incolit ille lares* 
 Carceremortales miferifquallente relief! 
 
 Luc^ificamnequeuntfed tolerare v/cem* 
 Cogitathumani generis dum quifcp falutem 
 
 ratioae furor.
 
 Auditrcregraui luuencsqui vocc tonantcm 
 
 Stillantes Lachrymas qtiam fine fine dabunt* 
 Illius atcp tubsecultrix Germanaluuenttis 
 
 Concitatoquantuspe&ora veftra dolor* 
 Q^uantus te exagitat legum ftudiofa luuentiw, 
 
 Q_uantus te exag/tat node, di eq? fimuU 
 Dicite nunc foil tipendere frequenter abore 
 
 Q_nam graue fit cam deferuifle, latus. 
 Audiilisquotiesrapi enter verba fonantem 
 
 Gryphos abftrufos difloluifle dm. 
 Sperauiheuquon'eshommemme pofle vidcr^ 
 
 Et qux faxa trah/t me quoc^ voce trahic* 
 Nunc &' non miferas aures explefie, tacentcm 
 
 Confpicere &: faltem non potuifle dolet, 
 Vrbs manct at quantus te te mine maxima lu&us 
 
 Etcapice,&:charotam viduata Duce 
 Lugentes tumiilumcingunt,pasfimcg parental 
 
 Q^uifcpgemens, & tti vfda dolore laces* 
 Laurea Iamceflet,fapientesiam fatis agro 
 
 DeTicmenfiprofiliere vim 
 lam memo domino extmcfione/ble relicTa 
 
 Deftituantveftrum fydera forte folum* 
 Te ne vnqjj potuifle igjtur luftisfime paftor 
 
 Lmquere propenfosad tiiavota greges^ 
 Te ne tui magnf cultores nummis vnoj, 
 
 Te ne vnquam fidos deferuifle tib/C* 
 Sicozlofraitur quffqui^ mortalia curaf 
 
 Refpice difceflu vulnera quanta faciV* 
 Afpice fitquanttis de te dolor, afpice quahtae 
 
 Sint Lachrymas, quanta &:foliatudopremat* 
 Hocfcio(fifoh'tafulges pi'etate beatus) 
 
 Pro noftris lachrymas fletibus ipfe dabis* 
 Nunc minus ilia micatlampas Phozbeia terr/*, 
 
 Nunc i ter incerto nunc ped quifo^ fad t* 
 Exitium,exitium promittunt fydera, raptus 
 
 Crimina.ridKulm dicere furta foret 
 
 Bij
 
 Cordeflmmt Lachrymre mortalibus, vfidicj lu&iig 
 
 N afcitar:!nnu men's omni'a plena mall's* 
 Ha?c fecifle docent,hcec te miracula fern's 
 
 Conuiu'um, terras de ftitunTe decent* 
 Vertentur lachryme in fur/as, vertentur amaram 
 
 In rabiem/urger fquallida Tifiphona% 
 CLuando luuant demura mcdicamina iiul!a,miniflret 
 
 Accenfis animus ne furor arma u'met. 
 Cum fuperis prompti bellum renouaregigantes 
 
 Innumeri ob raptum te ftatuere Ducem* 
 Hoc pniSjhoc cr/men, fcelus,hoc auerte, tuerae* 
 
 Etfaltem miferos qua raa'one potes4 
 Sis memor & faltem polles quo numme, terras 
 
 Debentes ramium fope luuare tibi. 
 Im mortal ctuum tollent adfidera nonien, 
 
 Et tibi pro mentis carmma multa dabunt* 
 Terra mi cultrix pri ma te fruge piabit, 
 
 Atcpegoficcarpensfydera voce qUeran 
 Hie facet ANDREA^ quondam qni lumina terns 
 
 Omni plena fui parte corufca dedi't,. 
 Aft vbi mortalis diifoluit vincula vitor 
 
 Terra mifer paites non tulit vf^ fuas* 
 Res data forte ftjit, Tern's eft fama rclufta 
 
 Sorte tulit cmeres mariner & oflu capax^ 
 Spi ritus ^therei fedcs confugi't ad altas 
 
 Agm/ne ccclclti cum comitante Ducis* 
 Jllicfirfceptum gremio,cupfdifcp lacertis 
 
 Auguror ajternotemporepace fruu 
 
 FINIS.
 
 L I I Z jr R L A 
 
 CAR M 1 N A) 
 
 MORS. 
 
 MEfemel ctrichm ducentiqj agminaljgno, 
 Q_uodfuit in tern's primi mini Caufa triunphi 
 Euulfumamagnorerum genitore recorder 
 Imperium noftrum toto, quod ftabat olympo 
 Horrendum,quando/pfa Comas ere&a tonanti 
 Terribilem oftendi vultum,faciemq? minantem 
 Non ante auditas pCKnas^urofc^ labores 
 runchominum quicquid fuerat,meafuHa timebat, 
 Necfecusatc^artus, animos hacfalce Secabam, 
 Afthumilifpolio v/c7rixnuncdextra potitur, 
 Conamur, famamcg hommum, nomen<p fopirc, 
 Heuparuos aufus,Heu quam nunc debileregnum, 
 Contemptsec^ faces, meamagnapotentia quondam, 
 larnc^ fan's fato, fuperumcp ardent/bus iris 
 Efle datum potmt,meritasiam fangume pamas 
 Soluimus cVnundumfugitpraecordibus horror, 
 Atnon his contenta mail's mens dira deorum 
 Sxuitadhuc, renouatq? atros in cordc dolors, 
 Etparat arma, quibus rapiat(miTerabiIe vifu) 
 QjJodfuperefl: rcgnf nee nonfine nummc fccptri 
 Vir fuititah'ae claris produc^us inon's 
 ALCIATVS Celeri dcdu#um nomen ab alec 
 Hunc ego tartareis fiirijs agitata tot annos 
 Perfequor, atc^ fina nitor prohibera: Minerusc, 
 Naminihicjprimum noftras peruenit adaures, 
 Hunc forequ/ longc noitros excedere fines 
 Posfit, &: in vita me in tern's Mere famam, 
 OppugnareviaSjConaricp omnia contra 
 Mens fuit, inuifis nam fie contendere fatis, 
 Podccp credebam venfentem auertere peftem > 
 Art irtimica mihi foboles defenfa deorum 
 rife fiiu, Temper^ meas clapfa retexit
 
 venus almalabori 
 Annuit,atqjviro v/fa eft contraria vfuo, 
 Nunc vero optato tandem cum fincpotiri 
 Debueram, &gratos frnclus fen tire labortim, 
 Q^uandoquidem e tern's /clirmfalxdepiilithoU'em 
 Ecceiterum rediens mutata vefteper ora 
 Percp virum memores animos mihi bella mouere 
 Pra'paratmdomitusjdi'uumcp exultat in armis, 
 Ipfa quid infozlix facianr, mens ardet in hoftem, 
 Ac pudet inccpto viclam defiftere, &: vnu 
 SuccubuifTe virOjSuperos qu^pellere ccelo 
 Haud quondam timin,magnuquac Turn aufatonatcm 
 Qjjaerere,& horrenti fecum concarrerc bello, 
 Me ne j'gi ttir vinaV dominum me ferre fecundu rn c* 
 Aft ego fi tern's dommor,fi dextera fortis 
 Sceptratenet,finonnobis audacia cesfit, 
 Scipi'adas duros tern's li cedere jusO, 
 Nee fua me contra defendit mufa Maronem 
 lufcp infidijTcp modum finem ue labori 
 Non prfus imponam, quam memet in omnia verfam., 
 Coreptumrpodijs peclusfpesdcfcrat omnis* 
 Vincere fi ncqueo fan's contran'a noftrfs 
 Fatavirijinpartemfaltem mmuifle Itcebit, 
 Nil non addebo, noftn's focia arma rapacis 
 Temporisaduingam^^ciquoq; li'mma Dftis, 
 Infernafq? domos viTam 3 prcciburcp Sorores 
 Tartareas,hominum Imguas, muader", 5^ hoftte 
 Aeream v^tam cogam diffbluere morfu, 
 Sed quo me furor ifte i-apitf qnae me arma niuabunt 
 Jn diuum mfradas vires v m fulmma dmumc' 
 Ipfa quidam fumpta pallacis irnagine fama: 
 IDecepi veteres, quando non omnia vitarti, 
 Facia trahunt, fed qua? fuperum fcntentia Jaudat, 
 Famacj^, qua-fummo diflent/t ab aethere, noftra eft. 
 At nimc ei or abeft,quodqj alto rapta dolor c 
 Dcbdlare paro, nou eft mortale a uec honei
 
 Latratus hominum, rapidos ne$ temporis aufus, 
 Credo eqiridem quondam tacituros marte poetas, 
 Necfemperfacris fedem forelegibusvnam, 
 Et quandoqj ftms ,quibus eft data copia fandi, 
 Deerithonos,mmuetcg artas virtue's honores 
 Nunchos,nunc illos,variabitcpomn/a tempus, 
 Attamen K Temper fuit,&: loins inch' ta proles 
 Semper em Pallas, tota hoc quseinpedore fedit, 
 Q^uamc^ etiam tnedijs magnum refonabit m armis 
 A L C I AT I nomen, ftabit^ armata Mmerua, 
 Ergo ego quae magnas Aafiacresvolyere,6^ omne 
 Deuaftarefolum, Latiascp euerteregentes, 
 EtnotumCcelo Romanum exahguere nomen, 
 Q^uarcp nouse&vetenspotuiCarthagmis arces 
 Hac arquarefolo dextra, nunc vmcor ab vno 
 A L C I A T O,hic rerum vicfla vicflr/ce triumphat, 
 AtcpJpfa hoftilem ducor captiua per orben% 
 
 FINIS. 
 
 CONSTANTIVS LANDVS 
 
 COMES PLACENTINVS IN 
 
 MORTEM DIVINI ALCIATI. 
 
 A L C I A T O cxtmtflo ccc/deruntailm/nalcgum: 
 Xx Rurfus &: inuafit barbaries iatuinu 
 
 ALIVD. 
 
 Alciati ob mortem Permesfi exaruit vnda: 
 Et creuere amnes Italian lachrimis*. 
 
 ALIVD. 
 
 Maximusinterpreslegum cumconcidi't hcros 
 AlciatuSjMufx tune per/ere nouem^ 
 
 ALIVD. 
 
 Alciato nafcentefuum accepere nitorcm 
 Leges,hoc /pfo depereunte iacent
 
 \ T E hai diinqirc oMortc rea tolt' if granlume 
 I \ III uftrator dellc Romanc leggif 
 
 Percuidifperfifi'an femprei beigreggi 
 
 Demon potendo piul'vfatofnrnie* 
 Hor che eftinto c f] valorofo mime, 
 
 Chi potra piu gnidarti a i fom mi feggi 
 
 Deireloquenza,chenon mai vaneggi 
 
 adorna Gfouentu di borr coftumec' 
 Pi'ange Italia mi'a dunque,e P/angailMondo 
 
 Epiangete voi meco o can amid, 
 Pianga mincruajClenoue forellc* 
 Poi c' habi'am perfo il primo no*I fecondo 
 Honor d* ogni virtu, che fe felilcu 
 
 1 cor gentil,e 1' innal2o alle ftelle* 
 
 FEDERICVS SCOTVS, 
 
 COMES PLACENTINVS, 
 
 JN MORTEM DIVINI 
 ^ L C I A T I. 
 
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 AVrca qui iecit per terras femina veri 
 Legiferum promens abdita fenfa virum, 
 Hi'c fitus eft,MedioIanum cui prapbuit oitum, 
 
 Gallia qu em mitti fouit cV auxit ope: 
 Q^uemcp reportanrnt populi ceruice Latini 
 
 Pene fua. lugent orba parente fuo 
 Gy mnafia ALCIATVM: ridet Ixtisfimus ipfe, 
 
 Cum tribuitquod erac deni'que cuicp, fuum: 
 Corpus humo, cceloc^ animam,nobiscp libdlos 
 
 Q^ueis velutinduxiclegibus j'pfe diem: 
 Et quibus abfterfitmultum mccroris amicis 
 
 Fleturis alias infatiabiliter* 
 
 Impreffum Papiae, Apud Francifcum Mofchcnum, 
 Bergomenfem* EtIouancmB3ptifta Nigrum, 
 Socios Ciuefrp Papicnfq*
 
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