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The Leipzig book dealer Blasius Salomon gave me a selection of your writings at the last Frankfurt Fair. Since they received much applause from scholars I reprinted them at once. We have sent 600 copies to France and Spain. They were bought up in Paris, and were read and praised by the scholars at the Sorbonne, so our friends have reported to us ... Calvo too, the Pavian book dealer, a well-educated man and a friend of the Muses, took a considerable number of your writings to Italy in order to retail them in every city. In doing so he is concerned not to make money but to serve the new devotion as best he can. He promised that he would send epigrams applauding you by all the scholars in Italy ... Moreover we have sent your works to Brabant and England. 4
Angelo Poliziano had arrived at an extraordinarily sophisticated historical understanding of both Latin and Greek culture and had formulated most of the technical methods which modern scholars still use in editing and explicating ancient sources. 29
