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The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy

Note 785 — Chapter VIII · DESCRIPTIONS OF LIFE IN MOVEMENT.

S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation

We must not take it too seriously, if we read (in Platina, Vitae Pontiff. p. 310) that he kept at his court a sort of buffoon, the Florentine Greco, ‘hominem certe cujusvis mores, naturam, linguam cum maximo omnium qui audiebant risu facile exprimentem.’

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