The Empress Anne was no doubt highly edified by this muster-roll of illustrious women; though some of the heroines, such as Lucretia, might have bridled up at their chaste names being classed with that of Cleopatra.
Petrarch repaired to Linterno, on the 1st of October, 1359; but his stay there was very short.

The winter set in sooner than usual.

The constant rains made his rural retreat disagreeable, and induced him to return to the city about the end of the month.
On rising, one morning, soon after his return to Milan, he found that he had been robbed of everything valuable in his house, excepting his books.

As it was a domestic robbery, he could accuse nobody of it but his son John and his servants, the former of whom had returned from Avignon.

On this, he determined to quit his house at St.Ambrosio, and to take a small lodging in the city; here, however, he could not live in peace.