[392] E.g. in the Capitolo on Albicante, a bad poet; unfortunately the passages are unfit for quotation.
[393] Lettere, ed. Venez. 1539, fol. 12, dated May 31, 1527.
[394] In the first Capitolo to Cosimo.
[395] Gaye, Carteggio, ii. 332.
[396] See the insolent letter of 1536 in the Lettere Pittor. i. Append. 34. See above, p. 142, for the house where Petrarch was born in Arezzo.
L’Aretin, per Deo grazia, è vivo e sano,
Ma’l mostaccio ha fregiato nobilmente,
E più colpi ha, che dita in una mano.’
(Mauro, ‘Capitolo in lode delle bugie.’)
[398] See e.g. the letter to the Cardinal of Lorraine, Lettere, ed. Venez. fol. 29, dated Nov. 21, 1534, and the letters to Charles V., in which he says that no man stands nearer to God than Charles.
[399] For what follows, see Gaye, Carteggio, ii. 336, 337, 345.
[400] Lettere, ed. Venez. 1539, fol. 15, dated June 16, 1529. Comp. another remarkable letter to M. A., dated April 15, 1528, fol. 212.