[543] Canto xxvi. 89.
[544] Canto xxv. 217, 218.
[545] Canto xviii. 114, et seq.
[546] I have placed in the [Appendix] a rough plaster cast rather than a true copy of Margutte's admirable comic autobiography. My stanzas cannot pretend to exactitude of rendering or interpretation. The Morgante has hitherto been very imperfectly edited; and there are many passages in this speech which would, I believe, puzzle a good Florentine scholar, and which, it is probable, I have misread.
[547] Canto xix. 148.
[548] Cantos xxv. xxvi.
[549] xxv. 119. This distinction between the fallen angels and the spiriti folletti deserves to be noticed. The latter were light and tricksy spirits, on whom not even a magician could depend. Marsilio sent two of them in a magic mirror to Charlemagne (xxv. 92), and Astarotte warned Malagigi expressly against their vanity (xxv. 160, 161). Fairies, feux follets, and the lying spirits of modern spiritualists seem to be of this family. Translations from Astarotte's dialogue will be found in the [Appendix].
[550] xxv. 159, 208.
[551] xxv. 161; xxvi. 83.
[552] Canto xxv. 141-158; translation in [Appendix].