Note 40 — Chapter III · THE TYRANNY OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Some years later the Venetian Lionardo Giustiniani blames the word ‘imperator’ as unclassical and therefore unbecoming the German emperor, and calls the Germans barbarians, on account of their ignorance of the language and manners of antiquity. The cause of the Germans was defended by the humanist H. Bebel. See L. Geiger, in the Allgem. Deutsche Biogr. ii. 196.