It is printed in Janitschek, _Die Gesellschaft der R.in It._: Stuttgart, 1879, p.

120.
Then came the third age of scholarship--the age of the critics, philologers, and printers.

What had been collected by Poggio and Aurispa had now to be explained by Ficino, Poliziano, and Erasmus.

They began their task by digesting and arranging the contents of the libraries.
There were then no short cuts to learning, no comprehensive lexicons, no dictionaries of antiquities, no carefully prepared thesauri of mythology and history.

Each student had to hold in his brain the whole mass of classical erudition.