Note 007
Consult Selden's Titles of Honor, in his works,
(vol. iii. p. 457 - 466.) A hundred years before Petrarch,
St. Francis received the visit of a poet,
qui ab imperatore
fuerat coronatus et exinde rex versuum dictus.
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 70