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 146 SHORT NOTICES January Domenico Bortolan has assisted the Istituto Storico Italiano in the publication of the third volume and the preface (Rome : Istituto Storico Italiano, 1920), which latter may be bound up with the first. The preface consists of Cipolla's notes with some degree of arrangement, but is clearly not a finished work. It is claimed for Ferreto that he was the first of a new generation of Italian men of letters to study Dante, and to make honourable mention of him ; whether he knew the Paradiso is left uncertain. Ferreto is well informed on Tuscan matters, for many of the Ghibelline and white exiles frequented Verona and Vicenza. The third volume contains the poem { De Origine Scaligerorum ', the disputable fifth book of which Cipolla, as opposed to Zanella, is disposed to attribute to Ferreto. It has also some minor poems relating to the death of Benvenuto Campesani, the Vicentine poet, and fragments from the collections of the chronicler Pagliarini (c. 1460). Among these are the first lines of a poem by Ferreto on Dante's death. These have attracted much notice, because they give the date as 13 August, instead of July according to Villani, and September on Boccaccio's authority. Ferreto's date has certainly the priority in point of time, and his source of informa- tion was probably good. The index has been excellently compiled by the Cav. Romolo Ducci. The list of all authors quoted in Cipolla's notes, with references to their book or articles, will be of much bibliographical value to students of the period. E. A. The appearance of the first volume of Professor Albert Biichi's edition of the Korrespondenzen und Akten zur Geschichte des Kardinals Matth. Schiner (Quellen zur Schweizer Geschichte. Basel : Geering, 1920) is an important event in historical studies. Schiner, or as he used to be called Schinner, is one of the vivid personalities of his age, and an adequate biography of him has long been wanted. The difficulty has been that most of the material was still in manuscript, and very widely scattered. Of the 500 letters and documents published here, from the years 1489 to 1515, something like three-quarters have never been printed before ; and they are gathered from very many sources — most of the archives of Switzerland and northern Italy, 25 in all, Rome, Innsbruck and Vienna, Lille, London, Paris, and Madrid, not to mention those which yielded nothing to the searchers. For an undertaking of this magnitude many hands have been needed. The work began with the Jesuit, Father Joller, professor at Brieg, who died in 1893 ; was carried on by Dr. Ferdinand Schmid and Professor Reinhardt, both since dead ; and now the first volume has been brought to completion by Dr. Biichi after long and patient preparation. It covers about half of Schiner's time of prominence, which may be taken to begin with his first nomination to the cardinalate in 1508 ; the second volume, which is to follow, will be occupied with the remaining seven years until his death in 1522. Before 1508 about a hundred documents are printed. The material contained in this volume is almost entirely political, Schiner's negotiations with the Swiss against the French forming the principal subject of interest. Many briefs from Leo X are printed here for the first time ; and letters from Henry VIII's state papers, which Brewer epitomized, are given here in full. An item of literary interest is a letter