This work was completed about 1630, and was offered in vain by the author to all the publishers in Venice.
The publishers cannot be held responsible for loss or damage to unsolicited manuscripts or photographs.
While many of the first attempts to attract females were anemic (and often overly pink!), publishers realized they were onto something.
Res Judicatae in 1892 and various other volumes followed, for he was in request among publishers and editors, and his easy charm of style and acute grasp of interesting detail gave him a front place among contemporary men of letters.
His Morgenstunden appeared in 1785, and he died as the result of a cold contracted while carrying to his publishers in 1786 the manuscript of a vindication of his friend Lessing, who had predeceased him by five years.
