Leonardo Aretino says that his fellow-townsmen crowded around him with delight, and received him with such honours as could have been paid only to a king.
In the same month of December, 1350, he discovered a treasure which made him happier than a king.

Perhaps a royal head might not have equally valued it.

It was a copy of Quintilian's work "De Institutione Oratoria," which, till then, had escaped all his researches.

On the very day of the discovery he wrote a letter to Quintilian, according to his fantastic custom of epistolizing the ancients.

Some days afterwards, he left Arezzo to pursue his journey.