[33] From "The Makers of Florence." Published by the Macmillan Co.
[34] That is, the Baptistery at Florence.
[35] From "Florence." By permission of the publishers, John C. Winston Co. Copyright, 1837.
[36] From "Florence." By permission of the publishers, John C. Winston Co. Copyright, 1897.
[37] From "Florence." By permission of the publishers, John C. Winston Co. Copyright, 1897.
[38] Dante was buried at Ravenna. The reader will recall Byron's lines:
"Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar,
Like Scipio, buried by the upbraiding shore."
[39] From "Italy: Florence and Venice." By special arrangement with, and by permission of, the publishers, Henry Holt & Co. Copyright, 1869. Translated by John Durand.
[40] From "Letters of a Traveller." Bryant's letter is dated in May, 1834.
[41] The court of the Austrian Grand Duke Leopold III. In 1859 Leopold was expelled, and Florence, with Tuscany, was annexed to the Sardinian kingdom.