Note 764 — Chapter VI · THE DESCRIPTION OF NATIONS AND CITIES.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
On Paris, which was a much more important place to the mediæval Italian than to his successor a hundred years later, see Dittamondo, iv. cap. 18. The contrast between France and Italy is accentuated by Petrarch in his Invectivae contra Gallum.