Note 347 — Chapter VI · THIRD PERIOD OF HUMANISM
Reading edition
Poliziano's epigram addressed to these earliest Greek printers may be quoted here:
Qui colis Aonidas, Grajos quoque volve libellos; Namque illas genuit Græcia, non Latium. En Paravisinus quantâ hos Dionysius arte Imprimit, en quanto cernitis ingenio! Te quoque, Demetri, ponto circumsona Crete Tanti operis nobis edidit artificem. Turce, quid insultas? tu Græca volumina perdis; Hi pariunt: hydræ nunc age colla seca!