The Silent One Who Can't Speak Every Language

Coval: renaissance was all about a revival of classical em everything o classical everything. He said that while he did go into a france and spoke latin with what he called wonderful fluency and elegance, his english pronunciation meant that no one understood a word he was saying. And ye, of course, we can't trust everything that he said, but it's like his official biography, so it's where we get most of our information about johnson.