36-6: como bueno: like a hero.
36-7: Cosenza ... Pavia: the first three cities are in southern Italy; Pavia is a town of northern Italy (near Milan), the scene of a battle in which Francis I of France was defeated by the Spanish in 1525. He remained a prisoner in Spain till 1526.
36-8: Murat: the apothecary is not quite able to repress his hatred of Murat, Napoleon's brother-in-law and commander at Madrid, particularly detested because of his barbarous massacre of the Madrileños after the dos deMayo (cf. note 2 de Mayo, p. 35, 5).
36-9: Francisco I: (primero) cf. note on Pavía above. Cf. also remark on doce in note Carlos XII, p. 16, 2.
36-10: en esto: hereupon; at this moment.