[Footnote 96: Dr. Hody (p. 54) is angry with Leonard Aretin,
Guarinus, Paulus Jovius, &c., for affirming, that the Greek
letters were restored in Italy post septingentos annos; as
if, says he, they had flourished till the end of the viith
century. These writers most probably reckoned from the last
period of the exarchate; and the presence of the Greek
magistrates and troops at Ravenna and Rome must have
preserved, in some degree, the use of their native tongue.]