The life of Poggio Bracciolini

by William Shepherd

[340] Poggii Opera, p. 344.

[341] Poggii Epistolæ lvii. ep. liv.

[342] Poggii Epistolæ lvii. p. 282.

[343] Poggii Epistolæ lvii. p. 284.

[344] According to the tables of the relative value of money at different periods, the volume above mentioned may be said to have cost Lionello £250 or £300 sterling.—Ton. Tr. vol. ii. p. 54.

[345] Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 195, 196.

[346] Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 198.

[347] Muratori Rer. Italic. Script. tom. vi. p. 915.

[348] Poggii Opera, p. 261-269. The disease of which he died was the stone. Poggio asserts, that after his death, a calculus of the weight of a pound was extracted from his bladder.

[349] Vita Nicolai V. a Jannotio Manetti apud Muratorii Rer. Italic Script. tom. iii. p. ii. p. 908 et. seq.