[234] Giannone, Istoria Civile di Napoli, lib. xx. c. 3. s. 1.
[235] When that political coxcomb, Cola de Rienzi, thought fit to be knighted, he would not bathe in the ordinary way, but made use of the vase wherein, according to tradition, Constantine had been baptised. Vita di Cola Rienzi, c. 25.
[236] Muratori, Dissert. 29. 53.
[237] Sacchetti, Novelle, c. 153.
[238] Muratori, Dissert. 53. Thus, when Hildebrand Guatasca, in 1260, was made a knight at the expence of the city of Arezzo, he swore fidelity to his lord, or, as grammarians would have it, his lady, the good city that had knighted him.
[239] Muratori, Dissert. vol. ii. c. 29. p. 16.
[240] Muratori, Scriptores Rerum Italicarum, vol. xii. p. 535.
[241] Non ferro sed vino; non lanceis sed caseis; non ensibus sed utribus; non hastibus sed verubus onerantur.
[242] Polycraticus, p. 181.
[243] Lansdowne Manuscripts, British Museum, No. 285. Article 41. The manuscript breaks off here; but the result of the joust is of no importance to my argument.