But the universal desire to hear him induced the Senators to postpone their sitting to the following day.
He then spoke with energy, and was extremely applauded.

Franceso Novello begged pardon, and took the oath of fidelity.
Francesco da Carrara loved and revered Petrarch, and used to go frequently to see him without ceremony in his small mansion at Arqua.
The Prince one day complained to him that he had written for all the world excepting himself.

Petrarch thought long and seriously about what he should compose that might please the Carrara; but the task was embarrassing.

To praise him directly might seem sycophantish and fulsome to the Prince himself.

To censure him would be still more indelicate.