[90] Karl, the second son of the Archduke.
[91] Bouchet, sugar and water flavoured with cinnamon.
[92] Nef, which, according to Querlon, here means, “étui ou boîte où se met le couvert des princes et des rois.”
[93] Ferdinand I. left nine daughters. The Three Queens were Margaret, who died in 1566; Helena, who died in 1570; and Magdalen, who was alive at the time of Montaigne’s visit. Barbara was duchess of Ferrara, Joanna, grand-duchess of Florence, and Catherine duchess of Mantua.
[94] Charles was crowned at Bologna in 1530. The monument referred to still stands in the pass of Lueg on the Brenner.
[95] “M. de Montaigne disoit que c’estoit la lune de ses tretes.” Querlon remarks, by way of explanation: “Parceque cette poussière obscurcissait le jour, ne lui laissoit, ainsi que la lune, que ce qu’il falloit de clarté pour se conduire.”
[96] Stertzing. Here the watchman still calls the hours of the night as he did at Innsbruck in Montaigne’s time.
[97] Eisack, a stream which rises on the Brenner and joins the Adige near Botzen.
[98] “Qu’elles se laissent testonner et peigner jusques aus oreilles.”
[99] Leonore, the only one of his children who survived him. In alluding to those who died in infancy he says, Essais, ii. 8: “Ils me meurent touts en nourrice: mais Leonor, une seule fille qui est echappée à cette infortune, a attainct six ans et plus.”