Would it become me, at my years, to be a solicitor for benefices, having never been so in my youth?
I trust, in this matter, to what you may do with the Cardinal Sabina.

You are the only friends who remain to me in that country.

These thirty years the Cardinal has given me marks of his affection and good-will.

I am about to write to him a few words on the subject; and I shall refer him to this letter, to save my repeating to him those miserable little details with which I should not detain you, unless it seemed to be necessary." A short time afterwards, Petrarch heard, with no small satisfaction, of the conduct of Cardinal Cabassole, at Perugia.

When the Cardinal came to take leave of the Pope the evening before his departure for that city, he said, "Holy father, permit me to recommend Petrarch to you, on account of my love for him.