[204] Memoirs of Dr. Burney 2. 262.
[205] See below, p. 140.
[206] See above, p. 105.
[207] Cf. the whole passage. Home’s Lady Louisa Stuart, pp. 159-60.
[208] An Italian equivalent for bluestocking is unknown to Tomaseo and Bellini. In a pamphlet, entitled Pursuits of Literature, printed in 1797, T. J. Mathias gives the term calza azzurra as though from Ariosto, quoting,
Fortunata la Calza azzurra e d’ oro
Si grate a Febo e al santo Aonio coro.
The first line quoted, however, is not by Ariosto at all, but by Mathias himself. Cf. Orlando Furioso, ed. Papini, canto 46, st. 3.
[209] 1. 379 ff.
[210] Larousse, Grande Encyclopédie.