Note 324 — Chapter III · THE MODERN IDEA OF FAME.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Epp. Fam. lib. xviii. (ed. Fracassetti) 2. A measure of Petrarch’s fame is given a hundred years later by the assertion of Blondus (Italia Illustrata, p. 416) that hardly even a learned man would know anything of Robert the Good if Petrarch had not spoken of him so often and so kindly.