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Then Albert, the great Jacobin friar, Peter Tesmoin, alias Witness, Pope Pius the Second, Volaterranus, Paulus Jovius the valiant, Jemmy Cartier, Chaton the Armenian, Marco Polo the Venetian, Ludovico Romano, Pedro Aliares, and forty cartloads of other modern historians, lurking behind a piece of tapestry, where they were at it ding-dong, privately scribbling the Lord knows what, and making rare work of it; and all by hearsay.
Jupiter hunc coeli dignatus honore fuisset, Censorem lingua sed timet esse suae. Raphael Maffei, surnamed Volaterranus, the compiler of the Commentarii urbani , a huge encyclopaedia published in thirty-eight books, composed the following witty stanza on the death of Valla: Tandem Valla silet solitus qui parcere nulli est Si quaeris quid agat? nunc quoque mordet humum.
'Think, therefore, says the Chronicle, 'how many there must have been in the daytime! and mark this, that they came less to hear his sermon than to see him. As he made his way through the throng, his frock was almost torn to pieces on his back, everybody struggling to get a fragment. See Graziani, pp. 565-68. Graziani, pp, 597-601. See Jacobus Volaterranus. Muratori, xxiii. pp. 126, 156, 167.
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