[Footnote 58: See, in his accurate and amusing biographer,
the application of Petrarch and Rome to Benedict XII. in the
year 1334, (Memoires, tom. i. p. 261 - 265,) to Clement VI.
in 1342, (tom. ii. p. 45 - 47,) and to Urban V. in 1366,
(tom. iii. p. 677- 691:) his praise (p. 711 - 715) and
excuse (p. 771) of the last of these pontiffs. His angry
controversy on the respective merits of France and Italy may
be found, Opp. p. 1068 - 1085.]