[509] Charles Louis de Bourbon, Duke of Lucca, later Charles II. Duke of Parma (1799-1883), son of Maria Louisa of Spain, ex-Queen of Etruria, and heir, by the terms of an arrangement concluded in Paris in 1817, to the Duchies of Parma and Piacenza on the death of Marie-Louise. This occurred in 1847, when Charles became Duke of Parma; but he abdicated, in March 1849, in favour of his son, Charles III., who was assassinated in 1854. Charles III. was succeeded by his son, the present Duke Robert I., then a child of six years of age, who was dethroned in 1860, and his duchy annexed to Sardinia by Victor Emmanuel II.—B.
[510] Lodovico Carracci (1555-1619), the founder of the Bolognese School, and his two cousins and pupils, Agostino Carracci (1558-1602) and his brother Annibale Carracci (1560-1609).—T.
[511] Pius VII. became Bishop of Tivoli in 1780, Bishop of Imola and a cardinal in 1785, and Pope in 1800.—T.
[512] Purgatorio, Canto XVI. 65-66.—B.
[513] Beatrice de' Bardi (1266-1290), née Portinari, celebrated by Dante in his Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia.—T.
[514] Dante, Vita Nuova, Canto III. 78.—T.
[515] Theodore Martin's Dante, Vita Nuova, Canto III., the closing stanza.—T.
[516] Cary's Dante: Purgatory, XXX. 23-28.—T.
[517] "Quando nel mondo ad ora adora
M'insegnavate come l'uom s'eterna."
Inferno, Canto XV. 84-85.—B.
[518] Teresa Contessa Guiccioli, later Marquise de Boissy (1801-1873), née Gamba. She lived with Lord Byron between 1819 and 1823. She married Hilaire Étienne Octave Rouillé, Marquis de Boissy, in 1851.—T.