[10] Aldo Manuzio.
[11] Segni's History, pp. 159, 184. Ed. of Milan.
[12] All the Academicians of La Crusca took some nom de plume, by which they were always known.
[13] The Prisoner of Chillon. Byron.
[14] Abrégé de Mézeray.
[15] Montaigne, Voyage en Italie, t. i.
[16] Sismondi, Literature of the South, vol. i.
[17] Sunt lacrymæ rerum, et mentes mortalia tangunt.—Æneid.
[18] The young Cardinal Giovanni dei Medici died suddenly, at Rosignano, a castle of the Maremma, while hunting with his brother, Don Garzia, in 1562. It was said, however, that the Cardinal had been murdered by his brother, for very soon after, Don Garzia himself died suddenly, and it was reported that he was killed by his father, Cosimo, in order to avenge the Cardinal's death.
[19] Galluzzi, History of the Grand Duchy, vol. ii. p. 271.