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Excerpt from Charles De Sainte-Marthe: 1512-1555 This book attempts to give some account of the life of one of the lesser men of letters of the early Renaissance, and to describe and estimate the value of his work. Such a study should incidentally throw light upon certain aspects of an important period, and it is hoped that this also may have been here accomplished. The preparation of the bibliography of such a subject is beset with some difficulty. If compiled to cover only works treating of the subject of the biography, its extreme paucity would be misleading; if designed to apply more extensively to the period involved, it should include the work of practically all contemporaries, and all modern studies upon each of these. I have taken refuge in a third alternative which I hope will prove more or less satisfactory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.