Bacon admired this Italian author for writng about "what men do, and not what they ought to do"
.... 'Italian 
society admired the bravo almost as much as Imperial Rome admired... [DOC] [TLE] The Essays of Francis Bacon/Introduction II - Wikisource, the free ... [PAR] Jan 24, 2016 ... Sir Thomas Wyatt translated Italian songs and sonnets and ... than that of the 
classical writer, more scientific than himself even when writing on a strictly 
scientific theme.