Suave etiam belli certamina magna tueri Per campos instructa, tua sine parte pericli; Sed nil dulcius est bene quam munita tenere Edita doctrina sapientum templa serena, Despicere undo queas alios, passimque videre Errare atque viam palantis quaerere vitae; Certare ingenio; contendere Nobilitate; Noctes atque dies niti praestante labore Ad summas emergere opes, rerumque potiri.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
In this scene is a large scroll, held by two angels, containing the following words: Ischermo di savere e di richezza, Di Nobilitate ancora e di prodezza, Vale neente ai colpi di costei, with some other words which cannot easily be understood.
"The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors & Architects, Volume 1 (of 8)"
Giorgio Vasari
One was an exceedingly scarce work by Lawrence Humphrey, entitled 'Optimates sive De Nobilitate eiusque Antiqua Origine,' printed in small octavo at Basle in 1560, which he once saw in a catalogue for five shillings.
"The Book-Hunter at Home"
P. B. M. Allan