The fourteenth century was "not superior to the thirteenth in learning.... We may justly praise Richard of Bury for his zeal in collecting books. But his erudition appears crude, his style indifferent, and his thoughts superficial." I doubt the superficialness of the _thoughts_: at all events, this is not a character of the time, though it may be of the writer; for this would affect art more even than literature. [13] Churton's "Early English Church." London, 1840. [14] "Quibus nulla macula inest quæ non cernatur. Ita viri nobilitate præditi eam vitam peragant cui nulla nota possit inviri." The first sentence is literally, "in which there is no spot that may not be seen." But I imagine the writer meant it as I have put it in the text, else his comparison does not hold. [15] Observe, however, that the magnitude spoken of here and in the following passages, is the finished and polished magnitude sought for the sake of pomp: not the rough magnitude sought for the sake of sublimity: respecting which see the "Seven Lamps," chap. iii. § 5, 6, and 8. [16] Can Grande died in 1329: we can hardly allow more than five years for the erection of his tomb. [17] Vol. I. Chap. I. [18] Sansovino, lib. xiii. [19] Tentori, vi. 142, i. 157. [20] "Jacobus Pisaurius Paphi Episcopus qui Turcos bello, se ipsum pace vincebat, ex nobili inter Venetas, ad nobiliorem inter Angelos familiam delatus, nobilissimam in illa die Coronam justo Judice reddente, hic situs expectat Vixit annos Platonicos. Obijt MDXLVII. IX. Kal. Aprilis." [21] Isaiah xlvii. 7, 10, 11, 15. [22] Compare "Seven Lamps," chap. vii. § 3. [23] See the farther remarks on Inspiration, in the fourth chapter. [24] That is to say, orders separated by such distinctions as the old Greek ones: considered with reference to the bearing power of the capital, all orders may be referred to two, as long ago stated; just as trees may be referred to the two great classes, monocotyledonous and dicotyledonous. [25] Job xxi: 26-28; Psalm lxxxix. 37. [26] I shall not forget the impression made upon me at Oxford, when, going up for my degree, and mentioning to one of the authorities that I had not had time enough to read the Epistles properly, I was told, that "the Epistles were separate sciences, and I need not trouble myself about them." The reader will find some farther notes on this subject in Appendix 7, "Modern Education." CHAPTER III. GROTESQUE RENAISSANCE.