◆Brantôme aims here at Queen Catherine de’Medici and her favorites.
◆Cf. Plutarch, De Stoicorum repugnantiis, c. xxi.
[113] P. 216:
◆Id., Demetrius, cap. xxvii. Brantôme is mistaken; the woman in question was Thônis.
◆Eighteenth Tale.
◆The “wheel of the nose” was a sort of “mask beard” that women wore in cold weather; it was attached to the hood below the eyes.
[114] P. 220:
◆It was François de Compeys, lord of Gruffy, who sold his estate in 1518 in order to expatriate himself.
[115] P. 221:
◆It is not three but four S’s that the perfect lover must carry with him, according to Luis Barabona (Lagrimas de Angelica, canto IV.), and these four S’s mean: