Note 94, page 58, col. 1.

Came out into the meadows.

Once, on a bright November morning, I set out and traced them, as I conceived, step by step; beginning and ending in the Church of Santa Maria Novella. It was a walk delightful in itself, and in its associations.

Note 95, page 58, col. 1.

Round the hill they went.

I have here followed Baldelli. It has been said that Boccaccio drew from his imagination. But is it Likely, when he and his readers were living within a mile or two of the spot? Truth or fiction, it furnishes a pleasant picture of the manners and amusements of the Florentines in that day.

Note 96, page 58, col. 1.

The morning-banquet by the fountain-side. Three hours after sun-rise.

Note 97, page 58, col. 1.

The Friar pour'd out his catalogue of treasures.

See the Decameron, vi. 10.

Note 98, page 58, col. 1.

-his lowly roof and scanty farm.

Now belonging by inheritance to the Rangoni, a Modenese family.

Note 99, page 58, col. 1.

"Tis bis own sketch-he drew it from himself.

See a very interesting letter from Machiavel to Francesco Vettori, dated the 10th of December, 1513.

Note 100, page 58, col. 2.

For its green wine

sung of old

The Amidei washed away the affront with his blood, attacking him, says Villani, at the foot of the Ponte Vecchio; and hence the wars of the Guelphs

La Verdea. It is celebrated by Rinuccini, Redi, and the Ghibellines.

and most of the Tuscan Poets.

Note 101, page 58, col. 2.

Seven years a prisoner at the city-gate. Galileo came to Arcetri at the close of the year 1633; and remained there, while he lived, by an order of the Inquisition. It is without the walls, near

the Porta Romana.

He was buried, with all honor, in the church of the Santa Croce.

O Buondelmonte, quanto mal fuggisti
Le nozze sue, per gli altrui conforti!

Note 112, page 59, col. 2.

Dante.

It had been well, hadst thou slept on, Imelda. The story is Bolognese, and is told by Cherubino Ghiradacci in his history of Bologna. Her lover was of the Guelphic party, her brothers of the Ghibelline; and no sooner was this act of violence made known, than an enmity, hitherto but half-suppressed, broke out into open war. The Great Place was a scene of battle and bloodshed for forty successive days; nor was a reconciliation accomplished till six years afterwards, when the families and their adherents met there once again, and exchanged the kiss of peace before the Cardinal Legate; as the rival families of Florence had already done in the Place of S. Maria Milton went to Italy in 1638. "Novella. Every house on the occasion was hung with says he," that I found and visited the famous Galileo, tapestry and garlands of flowers.

Note 102, page 58, col. 2.
His cottage (justly was it call'd The Jewel).
Il Giojello.

Note 103, page 58, col. 2.

There, unseen.

There it was,'

grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition." "Old and
blind," he might have said. Galileo, by his own ac-
count, became blind in December, 1637. Milton, as
we learn from the date of Sir Henry Wotton's letter
to him, had not left England on the 18th of April
following. See TIRABOSCHI, and WOTTON's Remains.

Note 104, page 58, col. 2.
So near the yellow Tiber's-
They rise within thirteen miles of each other.

Note 113, page 59, col. 2.

genius have been produced in times of tumult; when their speed in the morning; and at supper was gay every man was his own master, and all things were beyond measure. When he retired, he sent for her open to all. Homer, Dante, and Milton appeared in into his apartment; and, pressing her tenderly to his such times; and we may add Virgil.' bosom, slipped a cord round her neck.

Eleonora appears to have had a presentiment of her fate. She went when required; but, before she set out, took leave of her son, then a child; weeping long and bitterly over him.

Note 122, page 60, col. 1.

But lo, the Sun is setting.

I have here endeavored to describe an Italian sunset as I have often seen it. The conclusion is borrowed from that celebrated passage in Dante Era già l'ora, etc.

Note 123, page 60, col. 2.

when armies met.

The Roman and the Carthaginian. Such was the animosity, says Livy, that an earthquake, which turned the course of rivers and overthrew cities and mountains, was felt by none of the combatants. xxii, 5. Note 124, page 60, col. 2.

And by a brook.

It has been called, from time immemorial, II Sanguinetto.

Note 125, page 61, col. 2.

Such the dominion of thy mighty voice. An allusion to the Cascata delle Marmore, a celebrated fall of the Velino near Terni.

Note 126, page 61, col. 2.

-no bush or green or dry.

A sign in our country as old as Shakspeare, and still used in Italy. “Une branche d'arbre, attachée à une maison rustique, nous annonce les moyens de nous rafraîchir. Nous y trouvons du lait et des œufs frais; nous voilà contens."-Mém. de GOLDONL

There is, or was very lately, in Florence a small wine-house with this inscription over the door, Al buon vino non bisogna frasca. Good wine needs no bush. It was much frequented by Salvator Rosa, who drew a portrait of his hostess.

Note 127, page 61, col. 2.

Of that old den far up among the hills. Caffaggiòlo, the favorite retreat of Cosmo," the father of his country." Eleonora di Toledo was stabbed A narrow glade unfolded, such as Spring. there on the 11th of July, 1576, by her husband, This upper region, a country of dews and dewy Pietro de' Medici; and on the 16th of the same lights, as described by Virgil and Pliny, and still, 1 month, Isabella de' Medici was strangled by hers, believe, called La Rosa, is full of beautiful scenery. Paolo Giordano Orsini, at his villa of Cerreto. They Who does not wish to follow the footsteps of Cicero were at Florence, when they were sent for, each in there, to visit the Reatine Tempe and the Seven her turn, Isabella under the pretext of a hunting-Waters? party; and each in her turn went to die.

Note 128, page 61, col. 2.

--a sumpter-mule.

Many of these circumstances are introduced into a

landscape of Annibal Carracci, now in the Louvre. Note 129, page 62, col. 1.

Filling the land with splendor

Perhaps the most beautiful villa of that day was the Villa Madama. It is now a ruin; but enough remains of the plan and the grotesque-work to justify Vasari's account of it.

often represented there; and a theatre, such as is The Pastor Fido, if not the Aminta, used to be here described, was to be seen in the gardens very lately.

Note 143, page 65, col. 1.

Two were so soon to wander and be slain.
Nisus and Eurialus. La scène des six derniers

"

At the words "Tu Marcellus eris." The story is livres de Virgile ne comprend, qu'une lieue de terso beautiful, that every reader must wish it to be rain."-BONSTETTEN.

A thousand torches, turning night to day. An allusion to Cæsar in his Gallic triumph. "Adscendit Capitolium ad lumina," etc. SUETONIUS. cording to Dion. Cassius, he went up on his knees. Note 138, page 63, col. 1.

Once, as we were approaching Frescati in the sunAc-shine of a cloudless December morning, we observed a rustic group by the road-side, before an image of the Virgin, that claimed the devotions of the passenger from a niche in a vineyard wall. Two young men from the mountains of the Abruzzi, in their long brown cloaks, were playing a Christmas-carol. Their instruments were a hautboy and a bagpipe; and the air, wild and simple as it was, was such as she might accept with pleasure. The ingenuous and smiling countenances of these rude minstrels, who seemed so sure that she heard them, and the unaffected delight of their little audience, all younger than themselves,

On those so young, well-pleased with all they see. In the triumph of Æmilius, nothing affected the Roman people like the children of Perseus. Many wept; nor could anything else attract notice, till they were gone by.-PLUTARCH.

Note 139, page 63, col. 1.

-and she who said,

Taking the fatal cup between her hands.

The story of the marriage and the poison is well all standing uncovered, and moving their lips in

known to every reader.

Note 140, page 64, col. 1.

His last great work.

The transfiguration; "la quale opera, nel vedere il

corpo morto, e quella viva, faceva scoppiare l'anima

prayer, would have arrested the most careless traveller.

Note 148, page 65, col. 2.

And architectural pomp, such as none else;
And dazzling light, and darkness visible.

Whoever has entered the Church of St. Peter's or

di dolore à ogni uno, che quivi guardava."-VASARI. the Pauline Chapel, during the Exposition of the Holy

Sacrament there, will not soon forget the blaze of the side of the rock, and hanging over that torrent, the altar, or the dark circle of worshippers kneeling are little ruins which they show you for Horace's in silence before it. house, a curious situation to observe the

An allusion to the Prophecies concerning Antichrist. See the interpretations of Mede, Newton, Clarke, etc.; not to mention those of Dante and Petrarch.

There was said to be in the choir, among others cuno che, mentre un bandito osservava rigorosamente of the Sisterhood, a daughter of Cimarosa.

"I did not tell you that just below the first fall, on La Strada degli Amalfitani.

Note 169, page 74, col. 2.

Not thus did they return,

The tyrant slain.

third novel of Franco Sacchetty we read, that a stranger, suddenly entering Giotto's study, threw down a shield and departed, saying, "Paint me my

It was in the year 839. See Muratori. Art. Chronici arms in that shield ;" and that Giotto, looking after Amalphitani Fragmenta.

Note 170, page 74, col. 2.

Serve for their monument.

By degrees, says Giannone, they made themselves famous through the world. The Tarini Amalfitani were a coin familiar to all nations; and their maritime code regulated everywhere the commerce of the sea. Many churches in the East were by them built and endowed: by them was first founded in Palestine that most renowned military Order of St. John of Jerusalem; and who does not know that the Mariner's Compass was invented by a citizen of Amalfi ?

Note 171, page 75, col. 1.

The air is sweet with violets, running wild.
The violets of Pæstum were as proverbial as the
roses. Martial mentions them with the honey of
Hybla.

Note 172, page 75, col. 1.

Those thoughts so precious and so lately lost.
The introduction to his treatise on Glory. Cic. ad
Att xvi, 6. For an account of the loss of that treatise,
see Petrarch, Epist. Rer.; SENILIUM, xv, i; and BAYLE,
Dict in Alcyonius.

Note 173, page 75, col. 2.

-and Posidonia rose.

him, exclaimed, "Who is he? What is he? He says, Paint me my arms, as if he was one of the Bardi! What arms does he bear?"

Note 178, page 77, col. 1.
Doria, Pisani.

Paganino Doria, Nicolo Pisani; those great seamen, who balanced for so many years the fortunes of Genoa and Venice.

Note 179, page 77, col. 1.

Ruffling with many an oar the crystalline sea. The Feluca is a large boat for rowing and sailing, much used in the Mediterranean.

Note 180, page 77, col. 1.

How oft where now we rode.

Every reader of Spanish poetry is acquainted with that affecting romance of Gongora,

Amarrado al duro banco, etc.

Lord Holland has translated it in his Life of Lope Vega.

Note 181, page 77, col. 2.

Here he lived.

The Piazza Doria, or, as it is now called, the Piazza di San Matteo, insignificant as it may be thought, is to me the most interesting place in Genoa. It was

Originally a Greek City under that name, and after-there that Doria assembled the people, when he gave wards a Roman City, under the name of Pæstum. See Mitford's Hist. of Greece, chap. x. sec. 2. It was surprised and destroyed by the Saracens at the beginning of the tenth century.

Note 174, page 76, col. 1.

"What hangs behind that curtain ?"

This story, if a story it can be called, is fictitious; and I have done little more than give it as I received it. It has already appeared in prose; but with many alterations and additional circumstances.

The abbey of Monte Cassino is the most ancient and venerable house of the Benedictine Order. It is situated within fifteen leagues of Naples, on the inland road to Rome; and no house is more hospitable.

Note 175, page 76, col. 1.

For life is surely there, and visible change. There are many miraculous pictures in Italy; but none, I believe, were ever before described as malignant in their influence.

Note 176, page 76, col. 2.

Within a crazed and tatter'd vehicle.

Then degraded, and belonging to a Vetturino.

Note 177, page 76, col. 2.

A shield as splendid as the Bardi wear.

them their liberty (Sigonii Vita Doria); and on one side of it is the church he lies buried in, on the other a house, originally of very small dimensions, with this inscription: S. C. Andres de Auria Patriæ Liberatori Munus Publicum

The streets of old Genoa, like those of Venice, were constructed only for foot-passengers.

Note 182, page 77, col. 2.

Held many a pleasant, many a grave discourse.
See his Life by Sigonio.

Note 183, page 77, col. 2.

A house of trade.

When I saw it in 1822, a basket-maker lived on the ground-floor, and over him a seller of chocolate.

Note 184, page 78, col. 1.

Before the ocean-wave thy wealth reflected. Alluding to the Palace which he built afterwards, and in which he twice entertained the Emperor Charles the Fifth. It is the most magnificent edifice on the bay of Genoa.

Note 185, page 78, col. 1.

The ambitious man, that in a perilous hour
Fell from the plank.

Fiesco. See Robertson's History of the Emperor

A Florentine family of great antiquity. In the sixty-Charles the Fifth.

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