The  ambassador  was  well  chosen.  He  was  one  of  the
twenty-four  children  of  Sigismund  von  Miltitz,  a  Saxon  noble-
man,  whose    home    was    in  the    neighbourhood    of   Meissen.
se^.i  and  various  allusions  in  his  own  Joaohimi  Camerarii. '   A  valued  edition

works,  to  which,  reference    has  been  of  this  work  is  that  edited  with  notes

made,  the  biography  written  by  his  by  G.   Th.    Strobel,   1777,  to    whose

friend  Camerarius  (first  published  in  MelanoMhcmiana,    1771,   I    may    also

1566).     '  De    Philippi    Melanohthonis  refer.      An  elaborate  modern   life  of

ortu,  totius  vitae  curriculo,  et  morte  Melanchthon    is    that    by    Dr.  '  Carl

.    .    .    narratio    diligens    et   aocurata  Schmidt,  Elberfeld,  1861.
270  THE  YEAR  jjig:  FRIENDS  AND  FOES  chap.
