Pier Paolo Vergerio the Elder

Hans Baron writes in The Crisis of the Early Italian Renaissance, 1966 edition, p.134, "The catastrophe of 1405 ruined Vergerio's career as a humanist."

The next year he was one of the fifteen delegates who accompanied the Emperor Sigismund to Perpignan, where an endeavor was made to induce Pope Benedict XIII to renounce his claims.

In July 1420, he was the chief orator of the Catholic party at the Hussite disputation in Prague.

There are still in manuscript: a Latin version of Arrian's "Gesta Alexandri Magni"; a Life of Seneca; a panegyric on St. Jerome; a few comedies, satires, and other poems.

His On Good Manners (1402) is characterised by Quentin Skinner[3] as the first treatise about the proper education of princes.