Note 429 — Chapter III

Mémoires, vol. vii. ch. 9. B. Rucellai, who was as much at home in that house as in his own, describes in his Commentary De Bello Italico (p. 52), the plundering of books and other valuables, ‘quorum pars a Gallis, pars a paucis e nostris, rem turpissimam, honesta specie praetendentibus, furacissime subrepta sunt, intimis abditisque locis ædium, ubi illi reconditi fuerant, perscrutatis.’