Note 641 — Chapter XI · FALL OF THE HUMANISTS IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
De infelicitate literatorum. On the editions, see above, p. 86, note 4. Pier. Val., after leaving Rome, lived long in a good position as professor at Padua. At the end of his work he expresses the hope that Charles V. and Clement VII. would bring about a better time for the scholars.