[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.