Note 5 — Chapter IX · BLASS AND FLINDERS PETRIE

as to have lost almost every characteristic of Savonarola’s style. Their reporter, unable to keep pace with the preacher’s words, only jotted down rough and fragmentary notes. These were afterwards translated into barbarous dog-Latin—by way of giving them a more literary form—and published in Venice. For this reason Quétif and some other writers entertained doubts of their authenticity.5