[50] An evident allusion to Boccaccio's passion for the Princess Maria, i.e. Fiammetta herself.
[51] Or standard-bearer.
[52] i.e. the One-eyed (syn. le myope, the short-sighted, the Italian word [Il Bornio] having both meanings), i.e. Philip II. of France, better known as Philip Augustus.
[53] i.e. with sword and whips, a technical term of ecclesiastical procedure, about equivalent to our "with the strong arm of the law."
[54] i.e. a lover of money.
[55] A notorious drinker of the time.
[56] i.e. money.
[57] "And every one that hath forsaken houses or brethren or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands for my name's sake shall receive an hundredfold and shall inherit everlasting life."—Matthew xix. 29. Boccaccio has garbled the passage for the sake of his point.
[58] Syn. gluttonous (brodajuola).
[59] i.e. gleemen, minstrels, story-tellers, jugglers and the like, lit. men of court (uomini di corte).