[953] Strictly the ship of Isis, which entered the water on the 5th of March, as a symbol that navigation was reopened. For analogies in the German religion, see Jac. Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie.
[954] Purgatorio, xxix. 43 to the end, and xxx. at the beginning. According to v. 115, the chariot is more splendid than the triumphal chariot of Scipio, of Augustus, and even of the Sun-God.
[955] Ranke, Gesch. der Roman. und German. Völker, ed. 2, p. 95. P. Villari, Savonarola.
[956] Fazio degli Uberti, Dittamondo (lib. ii. cap. 3), treats specially ‘del modo del triumphare.’
[957] Corio, fol. 401: ‘dicendo tali cose essere superstitioni de’ Re.’ Comp. Cagnola, Arch. Stor. iii. p. 127, who says that the duke declined from modesty.
[958] See above, vol. i. p. 315 sqq.; comp. i. p. 15, note 1. ‘Triumphus Alfonsi,’ as appendix to the Dicta et Facta of Panormita, ed. 1538, pp. 129-139, 256 sqq. A dislike to excessive display on such occasions was shown by the gallant Comneni. Comp. Cinnamus, i. 5, vi. 1.
[959] The position assigned to Fortune is characteristic of the naïveté of the Renaissance. At the entrance of Massimiliano Sforza into Milan (1512), she stood as the chief figure of a triumphal arch above Fama, Speranza, Audacia, and Penitenza, all represented by living persons. Comp. Prato, Arch. Stor. iii. p. 305.
[960] The entrance of Borso of Este into Reggio, described above ([p. 417]), shows the impression which Alfonso’s triumph had made in all Italy,. On the entrance of Cæsar Borgia into Rome in 1500, see Gregorovius, vii. 439.
[961] Prato, Arch. Stor. iii. 260 sqq. The author says expressly, ‘le quali cose da li triumfanti Romani se soliano anticamente usare.’
[962] Her three ‘capitoli’ in terzines, Anecd. Litt. iv. 461 sqq.