Note 522 — Chapter VI · THE FURTHERERS OF HUMANISM.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
The last Visconti divided his interest between Livy, the French chivalrous romances, Dante, and Petrarch. The humanists who presented themselves to him with the promise ‘to make him famous,’ were generally sent away after a few days. Comp. Decembrio, in Murat. xx. col. 1114.