Note 729 — Chapter IV · THE DISCOVERY OF MAN. SPIRITUAL DESCRIPTION IN POETRY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
That the latter existed as early as the fifteenth century may be inferred from the Diario Ferrerese, Feb. 2nd, 1501: ‘Il duca Hercole fece una festa di Menechino secondo il suo uso.’ Murat. xxiv. col. 393. There cannot be a confusion with the Menæchmi of Plautus, which is correctly written, l. c. col. 278. See above, p. 318, note 2.