Livro - Biringuccio - 09-1002-0

CURTIO N AVO, TO the very magnijicent Messer Bernardino di
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Moncelesi of Salo: -
If the best things are due to those who know them best, to whom is this
work more appropriate than to Your Lordship? It was composed in your
name by Mesxr Vamoccio Biringuccio of Siena, an excellent man, and
given by him to me so that it is justly yours, and truly it is due to you,
since there is no one who could better know it and more rightly judge it
than you, either with Philosophy (in which you are most expert) or with
Mathematics or Architecture. Furthermore, I know that you will prize it
because it treats Wly not only every kind and sort of minerd but also all
that is necessary concerning the practice of those things that relate to the
arts of smelting or casting metals, as well as everything similar to this. YOU
will also prize it most highly if you consider the spirit in which I offer it to
you, and this must be considered no less if there are some things lacking
herein because of some slight earthly misfortune. And with this I offer my
se~ces to you, and kiss your hands.
PER CVRTIO NRvO'ET FRA
TELLXo AL SEGNO DEL LEO&