[22] Monte d’Elce. The monument referred to still exists, though greatly defaced.
[23] Isabella, daughter of Guidobaldo II., married Niccolo Sanseverino, Prince of Bisignano.
[24] Petites reines du micarême.
[25] Le More’s seems to have been a Parisian restaurant de luxe. “Chacun veut aujourd’hui aller diner chez Le More, chez Samson, chez Innocent, chez Havart, ministres de volupté et de profusion, et qui dans un royaume bien policé seroient bannis et chassés comme corrupteurs des mœurs” (Baudrillart, Hist. du Luxe, iii. 506).
[26] Rabelais, i. 51, “un beau cabaret assez retirant a celluy de Guillot en Amiens.” Motteux evidently misread the name, as he renders it as “Will’s at Amiens.”
[27] Incisa.
[28] Petrarch was born at Arezzo, whither his family had fled during the Bianchi and Neri troubles. They dwelt, however, at Incisa, and the remains of the house are said still to exist. One of the walls bears a tablet with the following inscription:—
Perche
Della casa paterna
di
Francesco Petrarch
Colpa di secoli ingrati
Meglio che dalle cure degli uomini
Rispettata dal tempo
Una memoria restasse
Antonio Brucalassi incisano
Correndo il giorno sesto d’Aprile
MDCCCXXXXII
Fra le antiche ruine
Consacrò questo marmo.
[29] Livy, xxii. 2-3.
[30] See vol. ii., p. 54.