The gold of Italy secured the election of his son; but such was the shameful poverty of the Roman emperor, that his person was arrested by a butcher in the streets of Worms, and was detained in the public inn, as a pledge or hostage for the payment of his expenses.
[Footnote 150: Yet, personally, Charles IV.

must not be considered as a Barbarian.

After his education at Paris, he recovered the use of the Bohemian, his native, idiom; and the emperor conversed and wrote with equal facility in French, Latin, Italian, and German, (Struvius, p.

615, 616.) Petrarch always represents him as a polite and learned prince.] [Footnote 151: Besides the German and Italian historians, the expedition of Charles IV.

is painted in lively and original colors in the curious Memoires sur la Vie de Petrarque, tom.iii.p.