[Footnote 15: To find the proofs of his enthusiasm for Rome,
I need only request that the reader would open, by chance,
either Petrarch, or his French biographer. The latter has
described the poet's first visit to Rome, (tom. i. p. 323 -
335.) But in the place of much idle rhetoric and morality,
Petrarch might have amused the present and future age with
an original account of the city and his coronation.]