Lettere di Messer Pietro Aretino, Parigi, MDCIX, lib. iii. p. 48. I have made a paraphrase rather than a translation of this rare and curious description.

[267]

See Yriarte, Un Patricien de Venise, p. 439.

[268]

See above, p. [153].

[269]

See Vol. I., Age of the Despots, p. 183.