Note 765 — Chapter VI · THE DESCRIPTION OF NATIONS AND CITIES.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Savonarola, in Murat. xxiv. col. 1186 (above, p. 145). On Venice, see above, p. 62 sqq. The oldest description of Rome, by Signorili (MS.), was written in the pontificate of Martin V. (1417); see Gregorovius, vii. 569; the oldest by a German is that of H. Muffel (middle of fifteenth century), ed. by Voigt, Tübingen, 1876.