[32] Opera (1581), p. 1038. Steele's extracts from Bartholomew Anglicus, in Mediæval Lore (Stock, London), give a good idea of the popular science of the thirteenth century.

[33] Cf. Rashdall, Universities of Europe in the Middle Ages, Oxford, 1895.

[34] Sen., iii., 1; Opera (1581), pp. 768, 769.

[35] See below, p. [68.]

[36] Fam. v., 7.

[37] Cf. De Recuperatione Terre Sancte, excellently edited by Ch.-V. Langlois, Paris, 1891.

[38] Lettres de F. Nelli, ed. Cochin. Paris, 1892, p. 166.

[39] He says distinctly in one letter: Ad epistolæ tuæ finem de familiaribus curis stilo alio et seorsum loquar, ut soleo. Fam., xx., 2 (vol. iii., p. 11). Again we find: Quidquid hodie æconomicum mihi domus attulit, seorsum altera perleges papyro. Fam., xviii., 7 (vol. ii., p. 486). Cf. below, p. [230] sq.

[40] There is one possible exception, a short address upon the death of the Archbishop of Milan, delivered in 1354; given by Hortis, Scritti Inediti, pp. 335 sqq. The reader will find a discussion of the editing of the letters below, p. [150] sqq.

[41] Fam., xiii., 5 (vol. ii. pp. 232, 233).