[21] P. 32:
◆According to Lalanne, the two gentlemen are Le Balafré and Mayenne. If the “grande dame” was Marguerite, she bore Mayenne no grudge, whom she described as “a good companion, big and fat, and voluptuous like herself.”
[22] P. 37:
◆It is Madeleine de Saint-Nectaire or Senneterre, married to the lord of Miramont, Guy de Saint-Exupéry; she supported the Huguenots. She defeated Montal in Auvergne, and according to Mézeray, killed him herself in 1574. (See Anselme, t. IV., p. 890.) In 1569, Mme. de Barbancon had also fought herself; she, too, was formerly an Italian, Ipolita Fioramonti.
[23] P. 39:
◆On the large square with the tower, in the centre of Sienna.
[24] P. 40:
◆Livy, Bk. XXVII., Chap. XXXVII.
[25] P. 42:
◆Orlando furioso, cantos XXII. and XXV.