http://venturearchitecture.com/portfolio/summit-materials/ The name of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq has recently come to my attention, and now I’m very curious to lay my hands on a real copy of the Epistulae Turcicae in Latin. Apparently, while de Busbecq was in Turkey he transcribed the famous Monumentum Ancyranum, which contains the text in Greek and Latin of Augustus’s Res Gestae (and which I saw in Ankara), and brought back to Holland with him tulip bulbs and lilac bushes, which later became horticulturally significant, I would say. The Latin excerpts I’ve seen of the Epistulae are very easy baby Latin and useful for students.
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