[170] _Platina, p. 402, 403._—_Muratori Annali, tom. ix. p. 143._—_Poggii Historia de varietate Fortunæ, p. 100._ [171] _Poggii Histor. Flor. lib. vi._ [172] Te fama est peragrare Germaniam ad apparatum belli contra Boemos. Id quidem laudo; sed considera diligenter, non quantum animi sit tibi ad pugnam, sed quantum virium armorum, ne magis animatus quam armatus in aciem accedas; et barbatum nostrum cave, ne auribus lupum teneas.—_Poggii Epistolæ lvii. ep. xxiii._ This letter is dated May 11th, 1431. [173] _L’Enfant Histoire de la guerre des Hussites, tom. i. p. 315._ [174] Some writers assert, that the number of the pontifical troops amounted to ninety, others to one hundred and thirty thousand men. But the numbers of forces are almost always exaggerated.—_L’Enfant Histoire de la guerre des Hussites, tom. i. p. 317._ [175] _Voltaire Annales de l’Empire._ We may judge of the precipitancy of the flight of the pontifical army, from the circumstance of the cardinal’s losing, with the rest of his baggage, the papal bull which authorised the crusade, his red hat, and the rest of his dress of ceremony, his cross and crochet.—_L’Enfant ut supra._ [176] Et cum ex fugâ exercitûs omnes populi Alemaniæ supra modum essent exterriti et consternati, videns nullum aliud superesse remedium, animabam et confortabam omnes, ut manerent constantes in fide et nihil trepidarent; quoniam ego propter hoc accedebam ad Concilium, ubi convenire debebat universalis ecclesia in quo omnino aliquod sufficiens remedium ad resistendum hæreticis, et ipsos extirpandos reperiretur.—_Vide Epistolam Juliani Cardinalis ad Pontificem Eugenium IV. apud Fasciculum Rerum Expetendarum et Fugiendarum, p. 55._ [177] _Poggii Opera, p. 309, 310._ [178] _Poggii Epistolæ lvii. ep. xxvii._ [179] _Muratori Rer. Italic. Script. tom. vi. p. 869._ [180] _Poggii Opera, p. 429._ [181] _Ibid._ [182] _Poggii Opera, p. 481._ [183] _Ibid, p. 475._ [184] Poggio intimates, that the loquacity of this incorrigible ecclesiastic continually betrayed his folly—that he was given to detraction; and that his rapacity frequently betrayed him into violent infringements of the rules of justice. He has also recorded the following severe, but coarse animadversion, which was made on his character after his death. “Damnabat quidam multis verbis vitam et mores Angelotti Cardinalis defuncti. Fuit enim rapax et violentus ut cui nulla esset conscientia. Tum ex astantibus unus, Opinor, inquit, diabolum jam vorasse et cacasse cum sæpius ob scelera sua. Alter vir facetissimus, Adeo mala caro ejus fuit, inquit, ut nullus dæmon quantumvis bono stomacho, illam præ nauseâ comedere auderet.”—_Poggii Opera, p. 477._ [185] _Fasciculus Rer. Expet. et. Fugiend. p. 55._ [186] _Acta Conciliorum, tom. xxx. p. 25._