[Footnote 31: I  cannot  refuse to transcribe a long passage
          of Petrarch (Opp.   p.  536,  537) in Epistola hortatoria ad
          Nicolaum Laurentium; it  is so strong and full to the point:
          Nec pudor aut  pietas  continuit quominus impii spoliata Dei
          templa,  occupatas arces,  opes  publicas,  regiones  urbis,
          atque honores magistratuum inter se divisos; (habeant?) quam
          una  in  re,  turbulenti  ac  seditiosi  homines  et  totius
          reliquae vitae consiliis  et  rationibus discordes, inhumani
          foederis stupenda societate convenirent, in pontes et moenia
          atque immeritos lapides  desaevirent.   Denique  post vi vel
          senio  collapsa palatia,  quae  quondam  ingentes  tenuerunt
          viri, post diruptos  arcus  triumphales, (unde majores horum
          forsitan  corruerunt,)  de  ipsius  vetustatis  ac  propriae
          impietatis  fragminibus  vilem   quaestum  turpi  mercimonio
          captare non puduit.  Itaque  nunc,  heu  dolor!  heu  scelus
          indignum!  de  vestris   marmoreis  columnis,  de  liminibus
          templorum,  (ad  quae   nuper   ex   orbe   toto   concursus
          devotissimus fiebat,) de  imaginibus sepulchrorum sub quibus
          patrum  vestrorum  venerabilis   civis   (cinis?)  erat,  ut
          reliquas   sileam,  desidiosa   Neapolis   adornatur.    Sic
          paullatim ruinae ipsae  deficiunt.   Yet King Robert was the
          friend of Petrarch.]
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