Note 325 — Chapter III · THE MODERN IDEA OF FAME.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
It is to be noted that even Charles IV., perhaps influenced by Petrarch, speaks in a letter to the historian Marignola of fame as the object of every striving man. H. Friedjung, Kaiser Karl IV. und sein Antheil am geistigen Leben seiner Zeit, Vienna, 1876, p. 221.