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“Very clever young men, in their pursuit of glory, always need the rein more than the spur; their intellectual exuberance of early years requires pruning more than grafting.”

“Du Bellay’s Roman years, though they gave him cultural maturity, seem to have been a bitter personal disappointment to him. The great Rome of antiquity, he found, was not only in ruins, it was infested by Italians.”