[Footnote 72: I have read in the collection of Schardius (de
Potestate Imperiali Ecclesiastica, p. 734-780) this animated
discourse, which was composed by the author, A.D. 1440, six
years after the flight of Pope Eugenius IV. It is a most
vehement party pamphlet: Valla justifies and animates the
revolt of the Romans, and would even approve the use of a
dagger against their sacerdotal tyrant. Such a critic might
expect the persecution of the clergy; yet he made his peace,
and is buried in the Lateran, (Bayle, Dictionnaire Critique,
Valla; Vossius, de Historicis Latinis, p. 580.)]