TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES

  1. Moved advertising from second page to [end].
  2. Changed ‘1446’ to ‘1466’on p. [135].
  3. Changed ‘then’ to ‘than’ on p. [155].
  4. Changed ‘1595’ to ‘1515’ on p. [192].
  5. Changed ‘or’ to ‘on’ on p. [202].
  6. The ‘55’ in ‘1355’ for the death date of Matteo was hand written on p. [392].
  7. Changed ‘„’ ditto markup to ‘——’ prefix markup in the index.
  8. Silently corrected typographical errors.
  9. Retained anachronistic and non-standard spellings as printed.