[20] Fr. Becchi, Sulle Stinche di Firenze, in Illustratore fiorentino. Flor. 1840.
[21] Inferno xix. 17 (‘in my beautiful San Giovanni’). Purgatory xii. 100. Even with the present transformation of the hillside a great flight of steps is to be seen hard by.
[22] Concerning the various kinds of the macigni (Dante uses the expression, Inferno xv. 63, speaking of the obdurate nature of the Florentines of his time), the pietra forte, pietra fina, serena, bigia, see Targioni, Viaggi per la Toscana, i. p. 18 et seq.
[23] The opinion expressed in the book of the Carmelite, P. Fr. M. Soldini—Delle eccellenze e grandezze della nazione fiorentina (Flor. 1780),—respecting the palace Tosinghi on the old market-place, destroyed, according to Gio. Villani, in the party wars of the middle of the 13th century, is, no doubt, a modern conjecture.
[24] Gaye, l. c. p. 498 (Anno 1344).
[25] Baldinucci, Professori del disegno (D. M. Manni’s Ausg.), vol. i. p. 24, Gaye l. c. p. 483.
[26] G. Masselli and G. P. Lasinio, Il Tabernacolo della Madonna d’Orsanmichele: Flor. 1851.
[27] L. Passerini, La Loggetta del Bigallo, l. c. p. 89 et seq.
[28] Benedetto Dei, in Varchi, Storia Fiorentina, book ix. (ii. p. 116), names twenty-one loggias on private houses in the latter half of the 15th century. Lastro, Osservatore Fiorentino (published Flor. 1821), iii. p. 203 et seq.
[29] Cronaca di Matteo Villani, book vii. chap. 41.