[229] Livy, who was born and died at Padua, divided his History of Rome into 425 books, of which only 35 have been preserved. These books were contained in "Decades," or groups of ten books each. The late Benjamin Jowett used to long for the recovery of the missing books of Livy more than for that of any other lost specimens of literature.—T.
[230] Good drink-money or "tips."—T.
[231] Francesco Albani (1578-1660), surnamed the "Painter of the Graces" and the "Anacreon of Painting," the great painter of the Bologna School.—T.
[232] Heliodonis Bishop of Tricca, in Thessaly (fl. 4th Century), was the author of the earliest Greek romance, the Æthiopica, which relates the loves and adventures of Theagines and Chariclea.—T.
[233] Isotta Nogarola (d. 1466), a great and learned lady of Verona, famous for her beauty, her knowledge and her poetic talent. She was the author of the Dialogus quo utrum Adam vel Eva magis peccaverit, quæstio satis nota, sed non adeo explicata, continetur (Florence: 1563).—T.
[234] Francis I. Emperor of Austria, King of Hungary, Bohemia, the Lombardo-Venetian Kingdom, etc. (1768-1835).—T.
[235] The Comte de Sainte-Aulaire (cf. Vol. V., p. 161, n. 2) had been appointed Ambassador to Vienna earlier in that same year 1833.—T.
[236] The Duchesse de Berry's mother was Clementina Queen of the Two Sicilies, daughter of Leopold II. Emperor of Germany, and sister of Francis I. Emperor of Austria.—T.
[237] Cf. Vol., V., p. 81, n. 5. The Comte de Montbel's Notice sur le Duc de Reichstadt had appeared in that year 1833. The Duke had died at Schonbrünn, three miles from Vienna, the residence of the Austrian Archdukes, on the 22nd of July; the distance is about 180 miles from Vienna to Prague, where Charles X. and his little Court took up their residence.—T.
[238] Leopold I. King of the Belgians (1790-1865) was the youngest son of Francis Duke of Saxe Saalfeld-Coburg when he was elected to the Belgian Throne in 1831. He was married first, in 1816, to Charlotte Princess Royal of England, who died in 1817. In 1832, Leopold married Louise Princesse d'Orléans, daughter of Louis-Philippe.—T.