17/43 39--42,) who relates, with visible confusion, his own downfall, may be supplied by the less accurate, but more honest, narratives of Matthew Villani (l. 268) and Ducas, (c 10, 11.)] [Footnote 37: Cantacuzene, in the year 1375, was honored with a letter from the pope, (Fleury, Hist.Eccles.tom.xx.p. 250.) His death is placed by a respectable authority on the 20th of November, 1411, (Ducange, Fam.Byzant.p. 260.) But if he were of the age of his companion Andronicus the Younger, he must have lived 116 years; a rare instance of longevity, which in so illustrious a person would have attracted universal notice.] Yet in the cloister, the mind of Cantacuzene was still exercised by theological war. |