Note 14 — JAMES HARVEY ROBINSON (continued 3)
James Harvey Robinson translation
"Rerum Memorandum," Opera, p. 427. The misprints in the Basle editions give the anecdotes an ill-natured turn which Petrarch did not intend. The opening of the passage should read: Dante Algherius et ipse concivus nuper meus, vir vulgari eloquio clarissimus fuit sed moribus parumper contumacior [the Basle editions have parum per contumaciam] et oratione liberior quam delicatis et fastidiosis ætatis nostræ principum auribus atque oculis acceptum fuit, etc. See Hortis, Studi sulle Opere Latine del Boccaccio, Trieste, 1879, p. 303.