[171] Poggii Histor. Flor. lib. vi.
[172] Te fama est peragrare Germaniam ad apparatum belli contra Boemos. Id quidem laudo; sed considera diligenter, non quantum animi sit tibi ad pugnam, sed quantum virium armorum, ne magis animatus quam armatus in aciem accedas; et barbatum nostrum cave, ne auribus lupum teneas.—Poggii Epistolæ lvii. ep. xxiii. This letter is dated May 11th, 1431.
[173] L’Enfant Histoire de la guerre des Hussites, tom. i. p. 315.
[174] Some writers assert, that the number of the pontifical troops amounted to ninety, others to one hundred and thirty thousand men. But the numbers of forces are almost always exaggerated.—L’Enfant Histoire de la guerre des Hussites, tom. i. p. 317.
[175] Voltaire Annales de l’Empire. We may judge of the precipitancy of the flight of the pontifical army, from the circumstance of the cardinal’s losing, with the rest of his baggage, the papal bull which authorised the crusade, his red hat, and the rest of his dress of ceremony, his cross and crochet.—L’Enfant ut supra.
[176] Et cum ex fugâ exercitûs omnes populi Alemaniæ supra modum essent exterriti et consternati, videns nullum aliud superesse remedium, animabam et confortabam omnes, ut manerent constantes in fide et nihil trepidarent; quoniam ego propter hoc accedebam ad Concilium, ubi convenire debebat universalis ecclesia in quo omnino aliquod sufficiens remedium ad resistendum hæreticis, et ipsos extirpandos reperiretur.—Vide Epistolam Juliani Cardinalis ad Pontificem Eugenium IV. apud Fasciculum Rerum Expetendarum et Fugiendarum, p. 55.
[177] Poggii Opera, p. 309, 310.
[178] Poggii Epistolæ lvii. ep. xxvii.
[179] Muratori Rer. Italic. Script. tom. vi. p. 869.
[180] Poggii Opera, p. 429.