[A]. A Zoological Menagérie has been placed in the park of the Villa Borghese!
[B]. Since this was written it has been done, entirely obliterating republican Florence, and creating a new enormous debt for the town.
[C]. Deputy for Corteolona, and leader of the Extreme Left.
[D]. Since this was written, one-half of these gardens have been destroyed; the other half bought by the Marchese Ginori.
[E]. This altar has been since, at the entreaty of the people, replaced in San Giovanni.
[F]. ‘I have in myself wondered strangely many a time how it is possible that in men who from their earliest youth have been used at the lowest price to bear bales of wool as porters and baskets of silk as carriers, and in a word to be little better than slaves all the day long, and to spend a great part of the night at carding and spinning, can in so many cases display, when there is opportunity and need, so much greatness of soul and such high and noble thoughts, and cannot only say but do such beautiful things as are said and done by them.’
Zanaiuoli means, literally, ‘whoever carries a basket’; there is no exact English equivalent.
[G]. It was not cancelled, and Molinari is now in the ergustolo of Oneglia.
[H]. To such an extent is the espionage on the salt-tax carried that a poor man living on the seashore is not allowed to take up more than one pail of sea-water to his house in one day lest he should expose the water to the heat of the sun and use the few salt crystals which its evaporation would leave at the bottom of the pail.