[400] Jacques Marquet de Montbreton, Baron de Norvins (1769-1854), author of a now forgotten History of Napoleon (1827).—B.
[401] Benvenuto Cellini (1500-1571), the famous Italian sculptor and artificer in gold and silver. Cf. his Autobiography, one of the most famous of Italian classics, circulated in MS. until it was first printed in 1730, translated into German by Goethe and into English by, inter alios, the late John Addington Symonds.—T.
[402] Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374), one of the chief names in Tuscan literature.—T.
[403] The Albano fisherman was shot in September 1813; one month later, in October of the same year, Napoleon lost his Empire on the plains of Leipzig.—B.
[404] Madame de Beaumont.—Author's Note.
[405] Madame Récamier went to Naples at the beginning of December 1813.—B.
[406] Murat, the son of an inn-keeper, had commenced life as a postilion.—T.
[407] The Gauls planted a bare sword to mark the centre of the Mallus, or council. The mallus survives in our modern word mall, a space bordered with trees.—B.
[408] Caroline Murat, Queen of Naples (1782-1839), sister of Napoleon Bonaparte, and married to Joachim Murat in 1800.—T.
[409] Publius Virgilius Maro (B.C. 70—B.C. 19), died at Brundisium in Calabria, and was buried at Parthenope (Naples). Virgil's tomb bears an inscription composed by himself in his last moments:—