[156] There is much confusion here. It appears that the fairy made the fountain now in the Signoria, and that Biancone saw this in a vision.
[158] This refers to the satyrs who are among the bronze figures below Neptune.
[161a] I here omit a long, detailed, and wearisome account of the research, which, however, indicates the accuracy with which the tradition had been preserved, and the full belief in it of the narrator.
[161b] A kind of cruel pillory.
[162] In allusion to seeing it from behind the squares formed by the grates of iron before prison windows.
[164] Landucci, 233, cited by Scaife.
[171] Una medichessa.
[177] Not a fairy here, but a witch of a certain degree.
[180] Si la Messa de Villani era finito.
[181] E appunto hora comincia quella delle puttane, pero caminate, che farete a tempo con l’altre.