[539] Donato d'Agnolo Bramante (1444-1514), the celebrated Italian architect and predecessor of Michael Angelo.—T.
[540] The Chiesa della Santa Casa, which contains the famous pilgrimage shrine of the veritable House of Our Lady, transported by angels from Nazareth and miraculously set down in Italy on the 10th of December 1294.—T.
[541] Léonore de Montaigne, later Vicomtesse de Gamaches. The reference occurs in Montaigne's Journey into Italy.—T.
[542] The Treaty of Tolentino was signed on the 19th of February 1797, between General Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII.—T.
[543] The Battle of Lake Trasimenus (217 B.C.) at which Hannibal routed the Romans. Fifteen thousand of the latter were killed or driven into the lake and drowned; six thousand were taken prisoners; and ten thousand saved themselves by dispersion and flight.—T.
[544] Nicolas Poussin (1594-1665), the French historical and landscape painter.—T.
[545] Cf. Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV., stanzas 66 et seq.—T.
[546] Leo XII. was born at Genga, near Spoleto, in 1766.—T.
[547] Spoleto repulsed the victorious enemy after the Battle of Trasimenus in 217 B.C.—T.
[548] Fra Filippo Lippi (circa 1402-1469) was placed by his aunt in a Carmelite convent. He left it when about twenty and, during an excursion at sea, was taken captive by some Moorish pirates. He purchased his liberty by drawing a full-length portrait of his master in charcoal on a white wall. He died at Spoleto, said to have been poisoned, on the 9th of October 1469.—T.