[64] I am informed, by a literary Hindoo lady, that Zohak, so graphically described by Southey as the emblem of remorse, is from an ancient Persian legend, and not of Indian origin.
[65] The stone is evidently a remnant of the ancient architrave of the façade, where it has been replaced by two modern slabs, and the arch above filled in with masonry.
[66] Anglicized from Bigeri Thorlacii et Sebastiani Ciampi. "De septentrionalium gentium antiquitatibus, et literis runicis."—Epistolæ Mediolani.
[67] Architettura d'Italia, Fig. 119, p. 201.
[68] Cattaneo, L' Architettura in Italia, p. 79.
[69] Ermelind was from England, which suggests a very early intercourse between the Lombards and Britain.
[70] Cattaneo, L' Architettura in Italia, p. 167.
[71] In 1410, when the street was enlarged, it was half destroyed, and the south aisle cut off. The last remains were in 1561 incorporated in the Uffizi by Cosimo I., when the gallery was built. Some capitals may be seen in the wall of the Palazzo Vecchio.
[72] See Marchese Ricci, Dell' Architettura in Italia, Vol. I. ch. ix. pp. 302, 342.
[73] The family of Polenta, their feudal lords.