Note 056 The hopes and the disappointment of Petrarch are agreeably described in his own words by the French biographer, (Memoires, tom. iii. p. 375 - 413;) but the deep, though secret, wound was the coronation of Zanubi, the poet-laureate, by Charles IV.]

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