Note 543 — Chapter XV

These lines have been, without authority, ascribed to Giovio; they may thus be rendered:

Here lieth Aretine, in prose and poem Who spake such ill of all the world but Christ, Pleading for this neglect, I do not know him.

Giovio, we may remember, styled Aretino divino, divinissimo, unichissimo, precellentissimo, in his letters.