Title: Poetæ satyrici minores, De Corrupto Reipublicæ statu. Marcus Zuerius Boxhornius recensuit, & commentariis illustravit. Accedit ejusdem Oratio de Eversionibus Rerumpub.
Description: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. f. [1] (blank), pp. [16], 142, [2], f. [1] (blank). Signatures: A-K⁸. Vellum. Engraved ornament on title page. Printer's device on colophon (bird with deer's legs, holding a horse-shoe in its beak, with caption "Nil penna sed usus"). Engraved initial. Inscribed “Egerton Webbe (1837).”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">A reprint of the verse in the scholarly editor Boxhorn’s ‘Epistolia, dialogi breves, oratiunculæ, poematia, Ex variis utriusque linguæ scriptoribus.’ [Geneva], 1577 (see Bib# 683074/Fr# 263.2 in this collection) still containing Michel de L’Hôpital’s ‘De Lite,’ a crypto-medieval composition described as ‘satyra incerti autoris, quae inscribitur Lis.’ The hoax/forgery was first exposed by Alphonse Honoré Taillandier in ‘Nouvelles recherches historiques sur la vie et les ouvrages du chancelier de L’Hospital.’ Paris, 1861, pp. 281 ff. 
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