[Footnote 21: The pope acknowledges his pedigree, a nobili
urbis Romae prosapia genitores tui originem traxerunt. This
tradition, and the strong resemblance of the Latin and
Walachian idioms, is explained by M. D'Anville, (Etats de
l'Europe, p. 258 - 262.) The Italian colonies of the Dacia
of Trajan were swept away by the tide of emigration from the
Danube to the Volga, and brought back by another wave from
the Volga to the Danube. Possible, but strange!]