Note 120 — Chapter VI
Reading edition
"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.