Houres of recreation, or afterdinners

which may aptly be called The garden of pleasure: containing most pleasant tales, worthy deedes, and wittie sayings of noble princes [et] learned philosophers, with their morals. No lesse delectable, than profitable. Done firste out of Italian into Englishe by Iames Sandford, Gent. and now by him newly perused, corrected, and enlarged. Wherein are also set foorth diuers verses and sentences in Italian, vvith the English to the same, for the benefit of students in both toungs.

Lodovico Guicciardini