John Addington Symonds, Renaissance in Italy: The Revival of Learning (New York, 1881), ch. VII., p. 398:
It need hardly be added that, when the obligations of Latinity had reached this point, to read Cicero was of far more importance than to study the Fathers of the Church. Bembo, it is well known, advised Sadoleto to «avoid the Epistles of S. Paul, lest his barbarous style should spoil your taste: Omitte has nugas, non enim decent gravem virum tales ineptiæ.1»
1 Give up those fooleries; they ill become a man of gravity.
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