Excerpt from The Holy Catechism of Nicolas Bulgaris The celebrated Nicolas, surnamed Bulgaris, flourished at the beginning of the 17th century after christ. His native country was the most famous of the sea-girt group of the Ionian islands, Corcyra, with its fine children, from which so many flourishing and diverse flowers every day spring, beautifying the various meadows of wisdom. He sprang from noble and patrician parents, well known for virtue and zealous piety and living in a city which is such a renowned seat of the Muses, he is nurtured and formed in divine morals and learning, and soon gets the best instruction in Greek language and all other branches of education, being naturally rich in great parts, and gaining wonderful skill in the Muses and literature. In this way therefore he is already well trained in soul and mind, and being constrained by a noble ambition, which is the only thing to enrich the spirit and make industry fruitful and in the highest degree helpful, he departs in order to pursue unchecked the treasures of wisdom, to what at that time was the chief and eminent seat of wisdom, possessed of many great and illustrious profes sors and teachers, the University of Padua. Here not a few others from the rest of Greece, and particularly of his own countrymen, burning with the love of learning, were studying foreign and home wisdom. 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.