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Guicciardini, who was certainly no friend to him, and regarded him as the inveterate foe of Florence, describes him as "a creature of very rare perfection, most excellent for his eloquence and industry and many gifts of nature and spirit, and not unworthy of the name of milde and mercifull;" and the Milanese doctor Arluno, the author of an unpublished chronicle in the Biblioteca Marciana at Venice, says, "He had a sublime soul and universal capacity.
These last-mentioned libraries have been scattered, but there are still some of the Renaissance period which survive in their original homes. The Laurentian at Florence and the Vatican at Rome stand at the head of all. So, too, the Marciana at Venice and the Malatestiana at Cesena must rank as genuine Renaissance collections. It was not only the great men who loved to have books.
The Venetian government declared itself ready to erect a suitable building, and to this day the Biblioteca Marciana retains a part of these treasures. The formation of the celebrated Medicean library has a history of its own, into which we cannot here enter. The chief collector for Lorenzo il Magnifico was Johannes Lascaris.
He entered his capital without pomp, unattended by guards, distinguished only for the dignity of his bearing, allowing free access to his person, and paying vows to the gods of his country. His wife, Plotina, bore herself as the spouse of a simple senator, and his sister, Marciana, exhibited a demeanor equally commendable.
To Currentius, the servant of God, laid in the grave on the sixteenth of the Kalends of November. Maximin, who lived twenty-three years, the friend of all. Septimus to Marciana in peace. Who lived with me seventeen years. She sleeps in peace. Gaudentia rests. Sweet spirit of two years and three months.
Meanwhile the soul of the maiden was thrilling to the Patriarch's tales of early Christian conquests in her islands at Paphos at Salamis of the miracles of the great Paulus, saint and bishop and leader as her eyes followed along the red-lettered parchment page of the rare volume which the holy man had brought from the treasures of the "Marciana" for her teaching translating the story from the Greek, which was yet hard for her, into her own softer tongue.
FOOTNOTES: This information is given by Marino Sanuto, Venuta di Carlo VIII, in Italia; original in the Paris library, also a copy in the Marciana. He calls Giulia "favorita del Pontefice, di et
He traversed the island, after having followed the traces which the footsteps of the giant have left, and re-embarked for Marciana. Two hours after he again landed at Pianosa, where he was assured that red partridges abounded. The sport was bad; Franz only succeeded in killing a few partridges, and, like every unsuccessful sportsman, he returned to the boat very much out of temper.
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