[Footnote 4: See the original Lives of Clement VI. in
Muratori, (Script. Rerum Italicarum, tom. iii. P. ii. p. 550
- 589;) Matteo Villani, (Chron. l. iii. c. 43, in Muratori,
tom. xiv. p. 186,) who styles him, molto cavallaresco, poco
religioso; Fleury, (Hist. Eccles. tom. xx. p. 126;) and the
Vie de Petrarque, (tom. ii. p. 42 - 45.) The abbe de Sade
treats him with the most indulgence; but he is a gentleman
as well as a priest.]