Note 676 — Chapter II · NATURAL SCIENCE IN ITALY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Brunetti Latini, Tesor. (ed. Chabaille, Paris, 1863), lib. i. In Petrarch’s time there were no elephants in Italy. ‘Itaque et in Italia avorum memoria unum Frederico Romanorum principi fuisse et nunc Egyptio tyranno nonnisi unicum esse fama est.’ De rem. utr. fort. i. 60.