Note 150
Yet, personally, Charles IV. must not be
considered as a Barbarian. After his education at Paris, he
recovered the use of the Bohemian, his native, idiom; and
the emperor conversed and wrote with equal facility in
French, Latin, Italian, and German, (Struvius, p. 615, 616.)
Petrarch always represents him as a polite and learned
prince.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 49