[ [48] ] Tronci, op. cit. p. 453.
[ [49] ] The print is dated 1634.
[ [50] ] For all things concerning this game and the Palio, see Heywood, Palio and Ponte.
[ [51] ] Villani, op. cit. Bk. iv. 2. The Badia, like that of Firenze, seems rather to have been founded by Ugo's mother, Countess Willa.
[ [52] ] Tronci, op. cit. p. 9.
[ [53] ] It may be as well to explain here that the Pisan Calendar differed not only from our own but from that of other cities of Tuscany. The Pisans reckoned from the Incarnation. The year began, therefore, on 25th March: so did the Florentine and the Sienese year, but they reckoned from a year after the Incarnation. The Aretines, Pistoiese, and Cortonese followed the Pisans.
[ [54] ] Tronci, op. cit. p. 21.
[ [55] ] 104 yards long by 35-1/2 yards wide.
[ [56] ] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, History of Painting in Italy, new edition, 1903, vol. i. pp. 185, 186.
[ [57] ] There is a miracle picture, S. Maria sotto gli Orcagni in the Duomo. Mr. Carmichael, in his book, In Tuscany, gives a full account of this picture. See also my Italy and the Italians, pp. 117-120.