[114] Vol. i. pp. 75-80.
[115] Vol. iii. The Golden Ass begins with an autobiography (vol. i. p. 103).
[116] Vol. iv. pp. 19, 76.
[117] My principal authority is Doni's Life by S. Bongi prefixed to an edition of the Novelle, 1851, and reprinted in Fanfani's edition of I Marmi, Florence, 1863.
[118] See Zilioli, quoted by Bongi, I Marmi, vol. i. p. xiv.
[119] How Doni hated his orders may be gathered from these extracts: "La bestial cosa che sia sopportare quattro corna in capo senza belare unquanco. Io ho un capriccio di farmi scomunicare per non cantare più Domine labia, e spretarmi per non essere a noia a tutte le persone." "L'esser colla chierica puzza a tutti." His chief grievance was that he had made no money out of the Church.
[120] The greater part of what we know about the Pellegrini occurs in Doni's I Marmi. See also a memoir by Giaxich, and the notices in Mutinelli's Diari Urbani.
[121] Those I am acquainted with are I Marmi, I Mondi, Lo Stufaiuolo, the Novelle, and two little burlesque caprices in prose, La Mula and La Chiave.
[122] I Marmi, per Fanfani e Bongi, Firenze, Barbèra, 1863, 2 vols.
[123] Parte ii. "Della Stampa."