Note 1221 — Chapter IV · MIXTURE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN SUPERSTITION.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
How widespread the belief in witches then was, is shown by the fact that in 1483 Politian gave a ‘praelectio’ ‘in priora Aristotelis Analytica cui titulus Lamia’ (Italian trans. by Isidore del Lungo, Flor. 1864) Comp. Reumont, Lorenzo, ii. 75-77. Fiesole, according to this, was, in a certain sense, a witches’ nest.