[127] Forbes Winslow, op. cit., p. 126.
[128] Works, vol. xxvi. p. 83.
[129] Dendy, op. cit., p. 41.
[130] Correspondance, vol. ii. letter 9.
[131] De Factis Dictisque Memorabilibus, Lib. vi. Cap. 9.
[132] Tertullian, Apologetica, p. 46. But see A. Gellii Noctes Atticæ, x. p. 17.
[133] Wiederbelebung des Klassisch, Altert., 1882.
[134] Pouchet, Histoire des Sciences Naturelles dans le Moyen Age, 1870.
[135] Masi, La vita ed i tempi di Albergati, 1882.
[136] Laura had eleven children and Petrarch himself two when he dedicated to her 294 sonnets. In politics he turned from Cola di Rienzi to his enemy Colonna and from Robert to Charles IV. (Famil, xix. 1. p. 32). He was too much occupied with himself, says Perrens, to be occupied with his country.