English Translation

1. To whom do I give this new charming little book
2. polished with a hard rock?
3. Cornelius, to you: for you were accustomed
4. to think my trifles to be something
5. now then, when you alone of the Italians dared
6. to unfold/explain wth three learned rolls the whole age/course of history,
7. by Jupiter, and involving a lot of labor.
8. Therefore have for yourself this whatever of a little book,
9. of whatever sort which, <oh> patron maiden,
10. may remain more than one enduring age.

Latin Text (www.thelatinlibrary.com)

1. Cui dono lepidum novum libellum
2. arida modo pumice expolitum?
3. Corneli, tibi: namque tu solebas
4. meas esse aliquid putare nugas
5. iam tum, cum ausus es unus Italorum
6. omne aevum tribus explicare cartis
7. doctis, Iuppiter, et laboriosis.
8. Quare habe tibi quidquid hoc libelli
9. qualecumque; quod, <o> patrona virgo
10. plus uno maneat perenne saeclo.

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