Dibdin, Thomas Frognall; Spencer, George John [Oth.]: Bibliotheca Spenceriana: or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century, and of many valuable first editions, in the library of George John Earl Spencer (Band 3) (London, 1814) [Cicognara, 4650-3]

BEMBUS.

187

Venice j 1495.]

Thc entire work is in the form of a dialogue, between the father and
son, Bernard and Peter Bembus. The latter finds the former sitting
in the shade of some poplar trees, by the side of a river; and after ex-
pressing his fears that the air might be too cool, he intreats him—as
a fit subject of discussion in such a place — to discourse upon the
eruptions of Mount yEtna. A pai’t of this opening dialogue is too
pleasing to be withheld:

Ig'i-

tur; cum illum multa in umbra sedentem
comperissem; ita initium interpellandi
eum feci . PETRYS BEMBVS FILI
YS . Diu quidem pater hic sedes; 8c certe
ripa hasc uirens; quam populi tuae istae
densissimae inumhrant; 8c ssuuius alit; ali
quanto frigidior est fortassej q sit satis .
BERNARDYS BEMBYS PATER .

Ego uero fili nuspiam esse libentius soleo;
q in hac cum ripae, tum arborumj tum
etiam ssuminis amoenitate: neq; est, quod
uereare, nequid nobis frigus hoc noceat,
praesertim in tanto aestatis ardore: Sed

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The discourse of the father, upon the above subject, may be said to
oecupy about 26 pages. The conclusion to the whole is thus :

Sed quoniam iam aduesperascit, pro-
cedamus in atrium : nugae autem pa-
storales istae tuae sub umbris sunt po-
tius, et inter arbores; q intra penates
recensendae. Quae cum dixis-

set, et iam in atrium peruenissemus,
ego finem loquendi feci: ille cogitabun
dus in bibliothecam perrexit.