Sunday, October 08, 2023
Onward, Scholars!
Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472), "The Deceased," Dinner Pieces, tr. David Marsh (Binghamton: Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, 1987 = Medieval & Renaissance Texts & Studies, 45), pp. 98-125 (at 114):
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Onward, scholars! Devote yourselves eagerly, completely, and assiduously to literature! Wear yourselves out with studies! Publish your books! Strive with great and ceaseless efforts, and make sure that perfumers and fishmongers lack no elegant and finely lettered manuscripts for wrapping their salves and sardines!The Latin, from Leon Battista Alberti, Autobiografia e altre opere latine. A cura di Loredana Chines e Andrea Severi (Milano: Rizzoli, 2012), p. 416:
Pergite, litterati, date operam litteris acrem et, ut facitis, amplam atque assiduam! Conterite studiis vos, edite libros, agite isthac vestra multa et inquieta opera ut facitis, ne eleganter et accurate scripte ad unguentorum et pisciculorum tegmen desint tabernario atque unguentariis charte!
