[Footnote 50: Matteo Villani describes the origin,
character, and death of this count of Minorbino, a man da
natura inconstante e senza fede, whose grandfather, a crafty
notary, was enriched and ennobled by the spoils of the
Saracens of Nocera, (l. vii. c. 102, 103.) See his
imprisonment, and the efforts of Petrarch, tom. ii. p. 149 -
151)]