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* Notitia librorum est dimidium studiorum, et maxima eruditionis pars exactam librorum habere cognitionem. "An acquaintance with books abridges by one-half the path of knowledge; and he is already well advanced in learning who knows with exactness the works that contain it."—Gaspar Thurmann, quoted by the Abbé Rive, "Prospectus d'un ouvrage publié par souscription," page 59, notes.

† These two Cardinals were both librarians of the Vatican, and both foreign members of the French Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-lettres.

Quirini, or rather Querini, was born at Venice, March 30, 1680, and died January 6, 1759. His eulogy, by Lebeau, may be found in volume xxvii of "Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions."