[10]

In allusion to Mr. Kirkup’s discovery of Giotto’s fresco portrait of Dante.

[11]

Galileo’s villa, close to Florence, is built on an eminence called Bellosguardo.

[12]

See the opening passage of the “Agamemnon” of Æschylus.

[13]

Philostratus relates of Apollonius how he objected to the musical instrument of Linus the Rhodian that it could not enrich or beautify. The history of music in our day would satisfy the philosopher on one point at least.

[14]

The Italian tricolor: red, green, and white.