In ancient times runesters were a specialized class separate from that of the witch or ordinary spell caster (much as the other specialists such as the leech or healer and the seithkona were different from a witch), and even today many believe it takes years of training to become adept at using the runes in spell work.

The personalisation of Poggio's material by the fiction that the Lucían and Valerius Maximus passages were part of a successful apotreptic by his father to stop two young Sienese from entering courtly life contains another significant reminder of Poggio's De infelicitate principum.

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Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […]