[50] “Symbola Heroica,” Antwerp, 1583.
[63] Raised footway, high curbstone, causeway, bench.
[67] “D’una gran purga bisogna avete,
E questa purga davero dovete
Farla all’ anima, cosi guarirete!”
[71] It appears from this story that La Certosa was “even then as now” visited by strangers as one of the lions of Florence.
[77a] This word is apparently allied to Marráno, an infidel Moor, miscreant, traitor, or to amaro, bitter or painful.
[77b] A peculiarly Florentine word. Renajo, sand-pit, a place so called near the Arno in Florence (Barretti’s Dictionary). I can see several of these renaioli with their boats from the window at work before me as I write. Vide “The Spirit of the Arno.”
[82] “Echoes of Old Florence,” by Temple Leader.
[83] Like Proteus, the evasive slippery nature of water and the light which plays on it accounts for this.
[92] “Well, yes, I think you might;
A cart of hay went through this afternoon.”
I believe this is by Peter Pindar. The Italian proverb probably suggested it.