“A quiet mind is that voluptas , or summum bonum of Epicurus; non dolere, curis vacare, animo tranquillo esse , not to grieve, but to want cares, and have a quiet soul, is the only pleasure of the world, as Seneca truly recites his opinion, not that of eating and drinking, which injurious Aristotle maliciously puts upon him, and for which he is still mistaken, mala audit et vapulat , slandered without a cause, and lashed by all posterity.”

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Farinata degli Uberti was the most valiant and renowned leader of the Ghibellines in Florence. Boccaccio, Comento , says:⁠—