[e] Ibid.; Villaret, t. xi. p. 117.
[f] Niccolo Niccoli, a private scholar, who contributed essentially to the restoration of ancient learning, bequeathed a library of eight hundred volumes to the republic of Florence. This Niccoli hardly published any thing of his own; but earned a well-merited reputation by copying and correcting manuscripts. Tiraboschi, t. vi. p. 114; Shepherd's Poggio, p. 319. In the preceding century Colluccio Salutato had procured as many as eight hundred volumes. Ibid. p. 23. Roscoe's Lorenzo de' Medici, p. 55.
[g] Schmidt, Hist. des Allemands, t. v. p. 520.
[h] He had lent it to a needy man of letters, who pawned the book, which was never recovered. De Sade, t. i. p. 57.
[] Tiraboschi, p. 89.
[k] Idem, t. v. p. 83; De Sade, t. i p. 88.
[m] Tiraboschi, p. 101.
[n] Tiraboschi, t. vi. p. 104; and Shepherd's Life of Poggio, p. 106, 110; Roscoe's Lorenzo de' Medici, p. 38.
[o] Schmidt, Hist. des Allemands, t. ii. p. 374; Tiraboschi, t. iii. p. 124, et alibi. Bede extols Theodore primate of Canterbury and Tobias bishop of Rochester for their knowledge of Greek. Hist. Eccles. c. 9 and 24. But the former of these prelates, if not the latter, was a native of Greece.
[p] Hist. Littéraire de la France, t. iv. p. 12