FOOTNOTES
[1] The armorial bearings are: Argent, a bend sable. Crest, a dexter arm in pale proper clothed gules holding an antique shield sable charged with a mullet or. Supporters, dexter, a lion gules armed and langued azure; sinister, an antelope argent, unguled and horned or. Motto: Adversa virtute repello.
[2] The account given above of the life of James Dennistoun has been drawn from Some Account of the Family of Dennistoun of Dennistoun and Colgrain (Glasgow: printed for private circulation by James MacLehose and Sons, 1906), kindly lent to the Editor by J.W. Dennistoun of Dennistoun, Esq.
[3] I speak of the first edition of his Italy; the reprint of 1848 is enlarged but not improved.
[4] Better evidence of the deficient information hitherto accessible could hardly be desired than the fact that Roscoe, in his Life of Lorenzo de' Medici, ch. viii., entirely mistakes the family name of the first dynasty of Urbino.
[5] Daniel ii. 32.
[6] Giovanni della Casa, translated by James Glassford.
[7] The most recent, and among the most interesting authorities for Urbino, is Passavant's Life of Raffaele, an admirable article upon which by Sir C.L. Eastlake, in vol. LXVI. of the Quarterly Review, suggested the present work. Had that biography been accessible to me at an earlier period, it might have assisted my labours, and perhaps modified some of my views; but I had no opportunity of consulting it until my own pages were nearly ready for press. It is the fruit of successful German industry, sweetened by candid and intelligent criticism, and its remaining still untranslated into any language is among the remarkable anomalies of literary history. I may be allowed here to mention that the accuracy and success with which Lord Lindsay and Mrs. Jameson have cultivated the field of Christian and legendary art, enable me to dispense with much regarding a subject which would otherwise have been more prominent in these volumes.
[8] The case is stated by Roscoe in his Preface to Leo X., and we approve of his decision, notwithstanding the objections taken to it in vol. VII., p. 356, of the Edinburgh Review.
[9] By an elaborate process, founded upon very complex facts, Cibrario concludes that, with reference to the value of wheat in Piedmont, the florin is now worth only about double what it was in the fourteenth century; but this does not seem a fair test to the relative power of money even in Italy; and in a work intended for English readers, it appears necessary to bring out an estimate applicable to present prices in this country, not in Southern Europe, where money still goes much further than with us.