[100] The reason was that she wished to keep him in play till late into the night, when all the folk should be asleep and she might the lightlier deal with him.
[101] i.e. Catalan Street.
[102] Charles d'Anjou.
[103] i.e. the Banished or the Expelled One.
[104] An island in the Gulf of Gaeta, about 70 miles from Naples. It is now inhabited, but appears in Boccaccio's time to have been desert.
[105] i.e. wild she-goat.
[106] A river falling into the Gulf of Genoa between Carrara and Spezzia.
[107] More familiar to modern ears as Doria.
[108] The Ghibellines were the supporters of the Papal faction against the Guelphs or adherents of the Emperor Frederick II. of Germany. The cardinal struggle between the two factions took place over the succession to the throne of Naples and Sicily, to which the Pope appointed Charles of Anjou, who overcame and killed the reigning sovereign Manfred, but was himself, through the machinations of the Ghibellines, expelled from Sicily by the celebrated popular rising known as the Sicilian Vespers.
[109] i.e. Beritola's sons.