Liudprand of Cremona Excerpt

This excerpt has a much more negative and condescending connotation to it. At first the author complains about the house calling it "hateful, waterless, draughty stone house". This is probably over exaggerated and it is not nearly as bad as described. Then in the next paragraph the author describes the trip to Nicephorus as a terrible and that seemed to describe his ugliness pretty in depth. I would not trust this because it seems pretty false and over exaggerated.