Note 32 — Chapter III · THE TYRANNY OF THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
On this point Franc. Vettori, Arch. Stor. vi. p. 29. 3 sqq.: ‘The investiture at the hands of a man who lives in Germany, and has nothing of the Roman Emperor about him but the empty name, cannot turn a scoundrel into the real lord of a city.’