[127] Sozzini, Diario, p. 307.
[128] Op. cit. p. 317.
[129] Trattenimenti, i. pp. 8-10. He adds hideous details of their mutilation at the hands of the Spaniards, which have too frequently been quoted; Sozzini (who tells us that on one occasion the Spaniards succoured the fugitives, p. 376) mentions once that some contadini had their noses and ears cut off, but neither he nor Montluc gives any other hint of the peculiar hideousness and atrocity of Bargagli’s version.
[130] See Mr Montgomery Carmichael’s excellent and picturesque account of the Spanish Praesidia, in In Tuscany, pp. 283-314.
[131] Nuovi Documenti, p. 76.
[132] Nuovi Documenti, p. 75. These officers were first appointed in 1413.
[133] Nuovi Documenti, p. 201. She says that she has had the house designed by uno valentissimo maestro; but does not name him. See also P. Rossi,L’Arte Senese nel Quattrocento, pp. 27-29.
[134] Bargagli quoted by A. Marenduzzo, Veglie e Trattenimenti Senesi, p. 14.
[135] The Captain of War—afterwards the Senator—will not be confused with the Captain of the People. The one was an alien noble, the other a Sienese burgher.
[136] Diari Senesi, 775, 776.