Note 12 — Chapter II · THE TYRANNY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
It is not till a hundred years later that the princess is spoken of as the mother of the people. Comp. Hieron. Crivelli’s funeral oration on Bianca Maria Visconti, in Muratori, Scriptores Rerum Italicarum, xxv. col. 429. It was by way of parody of this phrase that a sister of Sixtus IV. is called in Jac Volateranus (Murat., xxiii. col. 109) ‘mater ecclesiæ.’