The young English prince, followed by many nobles of our land, passed through France, and arrived at Milan on the 14th of May.

His nuptials took place about a month later.

At the marriage-dinner Petrarch was seated at the table where there were only princes, or nobles of the first rank.

It is a curious circumstance that Froissart, so well known as an historian of England, came at this time to Milan, in the suite of the Duke of Clarence, and yet formed no acquaintance with our poet.

Froissart was then only about thirty years old.