Book DejingtiLiri certamine. The Cardinal Cajetan

de Vio bath done the very fame : and Giovamt Ingeg- TiCYi^ Bifliop oiCabG d^ /ftria, hath newly bu/Ied him- felf in maintaining the Grounds of Pbyfiognomy. And before allthefe, Sjnepu.:^ a Chriftian Bifhop, wrote a Book of the Interpretation of Dreams, com- mented on afterwards by N tee f horns Gregoras^ a Bi- fliop alfo, or Patriarch, of Confia»ti»opie, I omit the Viotks o( Joachmus yli?i;as; and of Savanarola^ a Do- minican Frier ; wich Cardnal ^embHs his Gli Afo, /am; ^yEneas Sylvius (who was afterward Pope Fins 1 1.) bis Lucrece ; the Book lo full of all Lewdnefs of Voggins the Florentine , who was Secretary to the Pope. Neither will I mention the Macaronkk, ^tfi put forth under the name of Af^r//« f\cca,t^ but writ- ten by Theoph.FoleyjgiHs^z Bencdiftine Frier ; nor an in- finit number of other Books , written by Churchmen , with which, Kind Reader,if thou compare this of mine thoa wilt ^nd^ if any blame me, they do it wrongfully. And that thou mayeft be fully acquainted with my purpofe in this difcourfe, know , that \ enter into this Temple no further then the Cacholique & Apoftolique Church permits , and that 1 have not publifhed them, at lead] lome of the moft nice and ticklifh, but after many Chriftiansof my Profeliion ; as thou mayft per- ceive by the Sequel. As for the Ta/ifmamcall Figures , they were fo ftrange in our Age, that their very name was not (o much as known. Now that thou maycft have a more perfed: underftanding cf what is deliver- ed in theenfuing Difcourfe, be picafed to add this which foUoweth.
In the firft parr, I fay , that I had not been able to
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