[166] 'Tenne in casa dua Greci et uno Ebreo che s'era fatto Cristiano, et non voleva che il Greco parlasse con lui se non in greco, et il simile il Ebreo in ebreo.'—Comentario, p. 11.
[167] 'Se ignuna cosa difficile o cura disperata, la davano a Messer Gianozo.'—Ibid. p. 22.
[168] Vita di Gianozo Manetti, p. 462. Compare Burckhardt, p. 182. There is another story, told in the Comentario, of Manetti's speaking before Alfonso at Naples. The King remained so quiet that he did not even brush the flies from his face. P. 30.
[169] Muratori, vol. xx.
[170] For Pius II.'s reputation see Burckhardt, p. 182.
[171] Vespasiano, p. 465. Muratori, xx. 600.
[172] Alfonso gave him a pension of 900 scudi. He wrote a history of his life and deeds.
[173] Niccolo de' Niccoli, it must be remembered, was not a Grecian. Ambrogio used to insert the Greek words into his transcripts of Latin codices.
[174] See the emphatic words of Poliziano, quoted by Voigt, p. 189, on the revival of extinct Hellenism by the Florentines, and on their fluent command of the Attic idiom.
[175] See the curious passage in the Vita di Eugenio IV., Papa, p. 14.