Note 054
From Matteo Villani and Fortifiocca, the P. du
Cerceau (p. 344 - 394) has extracted the life and death of
the chevalier Montreal, the life of a robber and the death
of a hero. At the head of a free company, the first that
desolated Italy, he became rich and formidable be had money
in all the banks, -60,000 ducats in Padua alone.]
The History Of The Decline And
Fall Of The Roman Empire
—Fall In The East
—Chapter 70