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LIBER XIV · CAPUT 11

AT WHAT PERIOD GENEROUS WINES WERE FIRST COMMONLY MADE IN ITALY

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Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Verum inter haec subit mentem, cum sint genera nobilia, quae proprie vini intellegi possint, LXXX fere in toto orbe, duas partes ex hoc numero Italiae esse, praeterea longe ante cunctas terras. et hinc deinde altius cura serpit, non a primordio hanc gratiam fuisse, auctoritatem post DC urbis annum coepisse.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

While treating of these various details, it occurs to me to mention that of the eighty different kinds throughout the whole earth, which may with propriety be reckoned in the class of generous wines, fully two-thirds are the produce of Italy, which consequently in this respect far surpasses any other country: and on tracing this subject somewhat higher up, the fact suggests itself, that the wines of Italy have not been in any great favour from an early period, their high repute having only been acquired since the six hundredth year of the City.