Note 268 — Chapter VI · CONVERSATION

[Filippo Beroaldo (1453-1505), professor of ancient literature at Bologna, so learned that Pico della Mirandola called him the ‘Living Library.’ His most curious work is Declamatio ebriosi, scortatoris et aleatoris, in which three brothers, a drunkard, a lecher, and a dicer, dispute among themselves which of them, being the most vicious, their father will disinherit.]