[541] Heeren, in his Essai sur les Croisades, p. 413, quoted in Hallam’s Middle Ages, ascribes the loss of all the authors missing from the library of Photius to the Latin capture. Probably the statement is too sweeping.
[542] Gibbon, vol. vii. 116.
[543] See H. F. Tozer’s article on ‘The Greek-speaking Population of Southern Italy,’ in Journal of Hellenic Studies, x. p. 99.
[544] ‘Nemo est qui Graecas literas novit.’ Quoted in Hodius, De Graecis illustribus, p. 8.
[545] Hodius, De Graecis illust.
[546] Hodius, p. 28.
[547] Philelphi Epis. in 1451.
[548] Filelfo died in 1481. Dethier gives the letter which he wrote to Mahomet praying for the release of his mother-in-law, a prayer which was granted.
[549] Das Schriftwesen im Mittelalter (Leipzig, 1875), pp. 392 etc.
[550] Burckhardt’s Renaissance in Italy, p. 192.