History #7
Quid est enim aliud omnis historia quam Romana laus?
What else, then, is all history, if not the praise of Rome?
Francesco Petrarch, "Apologia contra cuiusdam anonymi Galli alumnias" in Opera omnia (Basel, 1554)
Looke what thy memorie cannot containe, Commit to these waste blacks
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