Note 572 — Chapter VIII · LATIN TREATISES AND HISTORY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Petrus Crinitus deplores this contempt, De honesta disciplina, l. xviii. cap. 9. The humanists here resemble the writers in the decline of antiquity, who also severed themselves from their own age. Comp. Burckhardt, Die Zeit Constantin’s des Grossen. See for the other side several declarations of Poggio in Voigt, Wiederbelebung, p. 443 sqq.