Note 22 — Chapter II · THE TYRANNY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Corio, Storia di Milano, fol. 247 sqq. Recent Italian writers have observed that the Visconti have still to find a historian who, keeping the just mean between the exaggerated praises of contemporaries (e.g. Petrarch) and the violent denunciations of later political (Guelph) opponents, will pronounce a final judgment upon them.