[599] Charles Président de Brosses (1709-1777), author of the Lettres historiques et critiques écrites d'Italie, visited Rome in 1739 and there met King James III., known also as the Pretender, Prince James Edward, Chevalier de Saint Georges.—B.
[600] Prince James Francis Edward Stuart, de jure James III. King of England (1688-1766), retired to Rome soon after the unsuccessful rising of 1715 and spent the last fifty years of his life there.—T.
[601] François Rabelais (1595-1533), Curé of Meudon and author of Gargantua and Pantagruel, from the latter of which the extracts are taken.—T.
[602] Jean Cardinal du Bellay (1492-1560), Bishop of Bayonne (1526), Archbishop of Paris (1533), and a cardinal (1535). He is noted as a man of letters and the patron of Rabelais.—T.
[603] Hazlitt's Montaigne, Journey into Italy.—T.
[604] Urquhart and Motteux' Rabelais, Pantagruel, Book V. chap. I.: How Pantagruel arrived at the Ringing Island and of the noise that we heard.—T.
[605] Florio's Montaigne, Booke II. chap. XII.: An Apologie of Raymond Sebond.—T.
[606] Hazlitt's Montaigne, Journey into Italy.—T.
[607] Cf. Florio's Montaigne, Booke III. chap. IX.: Of Vanitie. "Amongst her vaine favours I have none doth so much please my fond self-pleasing conceit as an authenticke bull, charter or patent of denizenship or borgeouship of Rome, which at my last being there, was granted me by the whole Senate of that citie—garish and trimly adorned with goodly seales, and written in faire golden letters—bestowed upon me with all gracious and free liberalitie."—T.
[608] Hazlitrs Montaigne, Journey into Italy.—T.