Note 686 — Chapter III · THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL BEAUTY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Flavio Biondo, Italia Illustrata (ed. Basil), p. 352 sqq. Comp. Epist. Var. ed. Fracass. (lat.) iii. 476. On Petrarch’s plan of writing a great geographical work, see the proofs given by Attilio Hortis, Accenni alle Scienze Naturali nelle Opere di G. Boccacci, Trieste, 1877, p. 45 sqq.