[140] See the description of the Grande Chartreuse.
[156] The conduct of the emperor, since the death of his mother, seems to be accomplishing this prediction apace.
[170a] It is reasonably conjectured that the sea formerly washed the walls of Padua.
[170b] T. Livius, L. i., c. i.
[170c] Lib. v., c. iv., p. 5.
[171] Called Roscani in Venetian, and reduced to ashes for the glass manufactory at Murano.
[182] A nephew of Bertoni, and worthy of his uncle.
[214] Mentioned by Dante in his “Purgatorio.”
[240] Mem. pour la Vie de Petrarque, vol. i., p. 439.
[284] Angela are frequently represented, in legendary tales, as riding on the beams of the moon.