[114] Dante, Par., xvi., alludes to its overthrow.
[115] Sarzana.
[116] This would be the Empress Maria, widow of Maximilian II. and sister of Philip II., who was returning to Spain to enter a convent. Don Giovanni dei Medici was the son of Cosimo I. by Eleanora degli Albizzi.
[117] Fynes Moryson, writing about ten years later, gives quite as bad a report of the inns in these parts. Itinerary, p. 164.
[118] Montaigne’s omission of all notice of the French victory at Fornovo in 1495 is an instance of his freedom from swagger.
[119] Borgo San Donino.
[120] A sort of fruit salad.
[121] “The name of a march or point of warre, sounded by trumpeters to their general or captain in a morning at their uprising” (Florio).
[122] Ottavio Farnese.
[123] Built from Vignola’s design.