[30] A Florentine merchant settled in France; he had great influence over Philippe le Bel and made use of the royal favour to enrich himself by means of monopolies granted at the expense of his compatriots.
[31] Charles, Comte de Valois et d'Alençon.
[32] Philippe le Bel, a.d. 1268-1314.
[33] The Eighth.
[34] Sic. Cepparello means a log or stump. Ciapperello is apparently a dialectic variant of the same word.
[35] Diminutive of Cappello. This passage is obscure and most likely corrupt. Boccaccio probably meant to write "hat" instead of "chaplet" (ghirlanda), as the meaning of cappello, chaplet (diminutive of Old English chapel, a hat,) being the meaning of ciappelletto (properly cappelletto).
[36] i.e. false instruments.
[37] A "twopence-coloured" sketch of an impossible villain, drawn with a crudeness unusual in Boccaccio.
[38] i.e. if there be such a thing as a holy and worthy friar.
[39] i.e. ex voto.