Note 589 — Chapter IX · GENERAL LATINISATION OF CULTURE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Comp. Petrarch’s letter from the earth to illustrious shades below. Opera, p. 704 sqq. See also p. 372 in the work De rep. optime administranda: ‘Sic esse doleo, sed sic est.’