[511] 'Pudet me, Pice, pigetque id de literatis afferre quod omnium tamen est in ore, nullos esse cum omnium vitiorum etiam nefandissimorum genere inquinatos magis, tum iis præcipue, quæ præter naturam dicuntur,' &c.—Progymnasma adversus Literatos, p. 431.
[512] Lines 22-129.
[513] Quinque Illustrium Poetarum Lusus in Venerem, Parisiis, 1791, p. 107.
[514] See above, [p. 185], [note 4].
[515] See above, [Chapter II].
[516] 'Perfect nose, imperial nose, divine nose, nose to be blessed among all noses; and blessed be the breasts that made you with a nose so lordly, and blessed be all those things you put your nose to!' The above is quoted from Cantù's Storia della Letteratura Italiana. I have not seen the actual address.
[517] The phrase is eulogistically used by F. Villani in his Life of Coluccio Salutato.
[518] See Muratori, vol. xx. 442, 453.
[519] Epist. Rer. Senil. xv. 1. 'Styli hujus per Italiam non auctor quidem, sed instaurator ipse mihi videor, quo cum uti inciperem, adolescens a coætaneis irridebar, qui in hoc ipso certatim me postea sunt secuti.'
[520] See above, [pp. 76-78].