Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa / With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition

by Edward Hutton

[ [68] ] Let me refer the reader again to Mr. William Heywood's exhaustive work on Italian mediaeval games, Palio and Ponte, Methuen, 1904.

[ [69] ] See also F. Tribolati, Il Gioco del Ponte, Firenze, 1877, p. 5.

[ [70] ] Many of these banners are hung in the great Salone—the first room you enter on the first floor of the Museo.

[ [71] ] All the coverings and armour are illustrated in the Oplomachia Pisana of Camillo Borghi. (Lucca, 1713.)

[ [72] ] There is a rich literature of poems and Relazioni, etc., on the Gioco del Ponte.

[ [73] ] F. Tribolati, Il Gioco del Ponte, Firenze, 1877. See also Heywood, op. cit. p. 136.

[ [74] ] Yet it is said that St. Peter himself came to Pisa from Antioch, and founded the Church of S. Pietro in Grado, and consecrated Pierino first bishop of Pisa; cf. Tronci, op. cit. p. 3.

[ [75] ] Tronci, op. cit. p. 23.

[ [76] ] He said palace, and palace it may be, for the baths are a quarter of a mile away.

[ [77] ] So a nineteenth-century writer calls it. Leopardi, too, cannot find words enough to express its beauty: "Questo Lung' Arno è uno spetaccolo così bello così ampio così magnifico," etc.