[48] Cp. Burckhardt, pp. 524, 541, notes; Villari, Life of Machiavelli, i, 124. “It was easy to see by his words that he hoped for the restoration of the pagan religion” (Id. Life of Savonarola, Eng. tr. p. 51). [↑]
[49] Only a few fragments of it survive. Villari, Life of Savonarola, p. 51. [↑]
[50] Carriere, Philos. Weltanschauung der Reformationszeit, 1847, p. 13. [↑]
[51] Cp. Villari, Life of Machiavelli, i, 128–34. [↑]
[52] Cp. Perrens, Hist. de Florence (1434–1531), i, 258. [↑]
[53] Id. p. 257. Cp. Villari, Machiavelli, i, 132; Savonarola, p. 60. [↑]
[54] “Of the majority of the twenty-two languages he was supposed to have studied, he knew little more than the alphabet and the elements of grammar” (Villari, Machiavelli, i, 135). As to Pico’s character, which was not saintly, see Perrens, Histoire, as cited, i, 561–62. [↑]
[55] Cp. Greswell, Memoirs of Politianus, Picus, etc. 2nd ed. 1805, 235; McCrie, The Reformation in Italy, ed. 1856, p. 33, note. [↑]