He behaved with incredible insolence.

Susa, or Damascus, the capital of the Saracens, would have received with more respect an envoy from the Holy See.

The great lords imitate his pride and tyranny.

The Bishop of Cavaillon is the only one who opposes this torrent; but what can one lamb do in the midst of so many wolves?
It is the request of a dying king alone that makes him endure so wretched a situation.

How small are the hopes of my negotiation! but I shall wait with patience; though I know beforehand the answer they will give me." It is plain from Petrarch's letter that the kingdom of Naples was now under a miserable subjection to the Hungarian faction, aid that the young Queen's situation was anything but enviable.