e said, that "the root of all great art in
Europe is struck in the thirteenth century," and that the great time
is from 1250 to 1350:

"In Germany the tenth century, Leibnitz declares, was a golden age
of learning compared with the thirteenth."

"The writers of the thirteenth century display an incredible
ignorance, not only of pure idiom, but of common grammatical rules."

The fourteenth century was "not superior to the thirteenth in
learning.... We may justly praise Richard of Bury for his zeal in
collecting books. But his erudition appears crude, his style
indifferent, and his thoughts superficial."

I doubt the superficialness of the _thoughts_: at all events, this
is not a character of the time, though it may be of the writer; for
this would affect art more even than literature.

[13] Churton's "Early English Church." London, 1840.

[14] "Quibus nulla macula inest quae non cernatur. Ita viri nobilitate
praediti eam vitam peragant cui nulla nota possit inviri." The first
sentence is literally, "in which there is no spot that may not be
seen." But I imagine the writer meant it as I have put it in the
text, else his comparison does not hold.

[15] Observe, however, that the magnitude spoken of here and in the
following passages, is the finished and polished magnitude sought
for the sake of pomp: not the rough magnitude sought for the sake of
sublimity: respecting which see the "Seven Lamps," chap. iii. Sec. 5,
6, and 8.

[16] Can Grande died in 1329: we can hardly allow more than five
years for the erection of his tomb.

[17] Vol. I. Chap. I.

[18] Sansovino, lib. xiii.

[19] Tentori, vi. 142, i. 157.

[20] "Jacobus Pisaurius Paphi Episcopus qui Turcos bello, se ipsum
pace vincebat, ex nobili inter Venetas, ad nobiliorem inter Angelos
familiam delatus, nobilissimam in illa die Coronam justo Judice
reddente, hic situs expectat Vixit annos Platonicos. Obijt MDXLVII.
IX. Kal. Aprilis."

[21] Isaiah xlvii. 7, 10, 11, 15.

[22] Compare "Seven Lamps," chap. vii. Sec. 3.

[23] See the farther remarks on Inspiration, in the fourth chapter.

[24] That is to say, orders separated by such distinctions as the old
Greek ones: considered with reference to the bearing power of the
capital, all orders may be referred to two, as long ago stated; just
as trees may be referred to