He knew Sir Thomas Browne, and repeated with unction: "Now since these dead bones have already outlasted the living ones of Methusaleh, and in a yard under ground, and thin walls of clay, outworn all the strong and spacious buildings above it; and quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests; what prince can promise such Diuturnity unto his relicks."
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
That, in spite of Bruni's envy, in spite of injurious time, in spite of the still worse insult of the modernised cathedral and the desecrated monument, embalms him in our memory and secures for him the Diuturnity for which he paid his twenty thousand crowns.
"Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Vol III."
John Symonds