[295] The English word "milliner" is derived from Milan.
[296] The term calimala seems to have been taken from the name of the street in which the guild was situated. The street led to a house of ill-fame, hence the name Calis malus, in the sense of Via mala—evil road or lane.
[297] A statute of the Calimala Guild, dated 1332, is given in the appendix of Giudici's "Storia dei Municipi Italiani." Another, dated 1301–2, has been published, with a commentary by Dr. Filippi, "Il più antico Statuto dell' Arte di Calimala." Turin: Bocca, 1889. The statutes formulated regulations already long in vigour by means of special laws.
[298] All these details of the Calimala Guild are to be found in the statutes cited above. We have quoted from the earliest statutes.
[299] Originally published in the Milan Politecnico, Nos. for November and December, 1867.
[300] Ammirato (ed. of 1846; Florence, Batelli), i. 248.
[301] The chroniclers say Guy de Montfort, but the latter only came in 1269. Vide Del Giudice, Cod. Dipl. ii. 23.
[302] Villani, vii. 19. The frequent mention of eight hundred knights by the chroniclers of this period excites doubts as to their accuracy. It is never safe to accept their statements regarding the number of this or that army. Probably eight hundred horse was a species of regulation number, signifying a squadron of French men-at-arms.
[303] Villani, vii. 19; Marchionne Stefani, rubric 138; Ammirato, lib. iii.
[304] Gregorovius, vol. v. chap. 8: Cherrier, "Storia della lotta dei Papi e degli Imperatori di Casa Sveva," lib. x.