Note 864 — Chapter III · LANGUAGE AS THE BASIS OF SOCIAL INTERCOURSE.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
Bald. Castiglione, Il Cortigiano, l. i. fol. 27 sqq. Throughout the dialogue we are able to gather the personal opinion of the writer. The opposition to Petrarch and Boccaccio is very curious (Dante is not once mentioned). We read that Politian, Lorenzo de’ Medici, and others were also Tuscans, and as worthy of imitation as they, ‘e forse di non minor dottrina e guidizio.’