Note 005 Vaucluse, so familiar to our English ellers, is described from the writings of Petrarch, and the local knowledge of his biographer, (Memoires, tom. i. p. 340 - 359.) It was, in truth, the retreat of a hermit; and the moderns are much mistaken, if they place Laura and a happy lover in the grotto.]

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The History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire —Fall In The East —Chapter 70