[50] Printed in vol. ix. of the Opere, ed. cit.
[51] Il Salvatico, one of the very oldest hostelries of Venice, dating from the Middle Ages.
[52] Printed at the end of the third volume of the unique edition of the Memorie Inutili di Carlo Gozzi, 1797.
[53] These will be found in Gozzi's Opere, ed. cit. The prefaces are printed before the plays.
[54] From this point forward Gozzi relates the series of events which Gratarol had already described in his Narrazione Apologetica. The two accounts agree in essentials, the fundamental difference between them being Gratarol's firm belief that Gozzi meant to satirise him in the Droghe d'Amore, which Gozzi vehemently denies. It must be remembered that Gozzi had the Narrazione before him while writing these Memoirs.
[55] Diavoloni is the Italian word. We hear of these comfits also from Gratarol. They are big sugar-plums containing liqueur.
[56] That is, Council of Ten with the Inquisitori di Stato at its head.
[57] Albergati was born at Bologna in 1728. The circumstances of his private life were curious. In 1748 he married a wife from whom he was divorced in 1751. In 1769 he married a second wife at Venice, who committed suicide. In 1789 he married a third wife. He lived principally at Venice and at his country seat at Zola, where he had a famous private theatre. He composed and translated a great many plays. His works were collected and published in an edition of several volumes at Bologna in 1827.
[58] The relation of gossip or Compare di San Giovanni is reckoned sacred at Venice.