He refers for the conclusion to his original, hight "Dant," the "grete poete of Itaille;" adding, that Dante will not fail his readers a single wordthat is to say, not an atom of the cruelty.

Opportunely came that high festival at the capital of the world, whereat "Franccis Petrark, the laureat poete, ... whos rethorike swete Enlumined all Itaille of poetrie," received the laurel crown at the hands of the Senate of Rome, with a magnificence of ceremonial surpassed only by the triumphs of imperial victors a thousand years before.