◆Isabella de Luna, a famous courtesan mentioned by Bandello.
◆Cardinal d’Armagnac was Georges, born in 1502, who was successively ambassador in Italy and archbishop of Toulouse, and finally archbishop of Evignon.
[101] P. 181:
◆Quotation badly understood. Crissantis, in the Latin verse, is a participle and not a proper noun. (Cf. Juvenal, sat. iv.)
◆Filènes, from Philenus, a courtesan in Lucian.
◆The line should read,
Ipsa Medullinæ frictum crissantis adorat.
[102] P. 184:
◆Brantôme seems to speak of himself; yet he might merely have played the side rôle of confidant in the comedy.
[103] P. 187: