Note 151
Besides the German and Italian historians,
the expedition of Charles IV. is painted in lively and
original colors in the curious Memoires sur la Vie de
Petrarque, tom. iii. p. 376 - 430, by the Abbe de Sade,
whose prolixity has never been blamed by any reader of taste
and curiosity.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 49