On voyait à Parme un savant homme arrivé du nord pour écrire une histoire du Moyen Age ; il cherchait des manuscrits dans les bibliothèques, et le comte lui avait donné toutes les autorisations possibles.
There was to be seen at Parma a scholar, arrived there from the North to write a History of the Middle Ages; he was in search of manuscripts in the libraries, and the Conte had given him every possible facility.