[270] Lit. necessity (necessità).
[271] i.e. to use a new (or strange) fashion of exposing herself to an inevitable death (nuova necessità dare alla sua morte).
[272] i.e. knew not whether she was ashore or afloat, so absorbed was she in her despair.
[273] Or "augured well from the hearing of the name." Carapresa signifies "a dear or precious prize, gain or capture."
[274] This name is apparently a distortion of the Arabic Amir Abdullah.
[275] Clement V. early in the fourteenth century removed the Papal See to Avignon, where it continued to be during the reigns of the five succeeding Popes, Rome being in the meantime abandoned by the Papal Court, till Gregory XI, in the year 1376 again took up his residence at the latter city. It is apparently to this circumstance that Boccaccio alludes in the text.
[276] Lit. stand (stare), i.e. abide undone.
[277] i.e. a native of Faenza (Faentina).
[278] A questo fatto, i.e. at the storm of Faenza.
[279] i.e. the owner of the plundered house.