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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 Ro

mana.

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

Note 102, page 58, col. 2.

His cottage (justly was it called The Jewel).

Il Giojello.

Note 103, page 58, col. 2.

There, unseen.

Milton went to Italy in 1638. There it was,» says he, that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition. Old and blind,» he might have said. Galileo, by his own account, 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 111, page 59, col. 2.

At the bridge-foot.

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Giovanni Buondelmonte was on the point of marrying an Amidei, when a widow of the Donati family made him break his engagement in the manner here de

scribed.

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 and the Ghibellines.

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. radacci in his history of Bologna. Her lover was of the The story is Bolognese, and is told by Cherubino GhiGuelphic 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 Novella. Every house on the occasion was hung with tapestry and garlands of flowers.

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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 GOLDONI.

There is, or was very lately, in Florence a small wine

The Morgante Maggiore. He used to recite it at the table of Lorenzo, in the manner of the ancient Rhap-house with this inscription over the door, Al buon vino sodists.

Note 121, page 60, col 1.

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Of that old den far up among the hills. Caffaggiolo, the favourite retreat of Cosmo, the father of his country.» Eleonora di Toledo was stabbed there on the 11th of July, 1576, by her husband Pietro de' Medici; and on the 16th of the same month, Isabella de' Medici was strangled by hers, Paolo Giordano Orsini, at his villa of Cerreto. They were at Florence, when they were sent for, each in her turn, Isabella under the pretext of a hunting-party; and each in her turn went to die.

Isabella was one of the most beautiful and accomplished women of the Age. In the Latin, French, and Spanish languages she spoke not only with fluency, but elegance; and in her own she excelled as an Improvisatrice, accompanying herself on the lute. On her arrival at dusk, Paolo presented her with two beautiful greyhounds, that she might make a trial of their speed in

The Augustan Age, as it is called, what was it but a dying blaze of the Commonwealth? When Augustus began to reign, Cicero and Lucretius were dead, Catullus had written his satires against Cæsar, and Horace and Virgil were no longer in their first youth. Horace had served under Brutus; and Virgil had been pronounced to be Magnæ spes altera Romæ.

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.

A narrow glade unfolded, such as Spring. This upper region, a country of dews and dewy lights, as described by Virgil and Pliny, and still, I believe, called La Rosa, is full of beautiful scenery. Who does not wish to follow the footsteps of Cicero there, to visit the Reatine Tempe and the Seven Waters?

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 splendourPerhaps 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.

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

Note 130, page 62, col. 1.

Fair forms appear'd, marmuring melodious verse.

A fashion for ever reviving in such a climate. In the year 1783, the Nina of Paesiello was performed in a small wood near Caserta.

Note 131, page 62, col. 1.
--the Appian.

The street of the tombs in Pompeii may serve to give us some idea of the Via Appia, that Regina Viarum, in its splendour. It is perhaps the most striking vestige of Antiquity that remains to us.

Note 132, page 62, col. 2.

Horace himself

And Augustus in his litter, coming at a still slower rate. He was borne along by slaves; and the gentle motion allowed him to read, write, and employ himself as in his cabinet. Though Tivoli is only sixteen miles from the City, he was always two nights on the road. — SUE

TONIUS.

Note 133, page 62, col. 2.

Where his voice falter'd,

At the words « Tu Marcellus eris.» The story is so beautiful, that every reader must wish it to be true.

Note 134, page 62, col. 2.

-the centre of their Universe.

From the golden pillar in the Forum the ways ran to the gates, and from the gates to the extremities of the Empire.

Note 135, page 62, col. 2.

To the twelve tables.

The laws of the twelve tables were inscribed on pillars of brass, and placed in the most conspicuous part of the Forum.-DION. HAL.

Note 136, page 62, col. 2.

And to the shepherd on the Alban mount.
Amplitudo tanta est, ut conspiciatur à Latiario Jove.
-C. PLIN. XXXiv, 7.

Note 137, page 62, col. 2.

A thousand torches, turning night to day.

An allusion to Cæsar in his Gallic triumph. Adscendit Capitolium ad lumina, etc. SUETONIUS. According to Dion. Cassius, he went up on his knees.

Note 138, page 63, col. 1.

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Once, as we were approaching Frescati in the sunshine 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 Ro-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, all standing uncovered and

On those so young, well-pleased with all they see. In the triumph of Æmilius, nothing affected the man people like the children of Perseus. Many wept; nor could any thing 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- moving their lips in prayer, would have arrested the every reader.

known to

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 di dolore à ogni uno, che quivi guardava.»-VASARI.

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 the Pauline Chapel, during the Exposition of the Holy

Sacrament there, will not soon forget the blaze of the altar, or the dark circle of worshippers kneeling in silence before it.

Note 149, page 65, col. 2.

Ere they came.

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

Note 150, page 66, col. 1.

And from the latticed gallery came a chant
Of psalms, most saint-like, most angelical.

There was said to be in the choir, among others of the Sisterhood, a daughter of Cimarosa.

Note 151, page 66, col. 2.

'T was in her utmost need; nor, while she lives. Her back was at that time turned to the people; but in his countenance might be read all that was passing. The Cardinal, who officiated, was a venerable old man, evidently unused to the ceremony and much affected by it.

Note 152, page 66, col. 2.

The black pall, the requiem.

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Tasso was returning from Naples to Rome, and had arrived at Mola di Gaëta, when he received this tribute of respect. The captain of the troop was Marco di Sciarra, See MANSO. Vita del Tasso. Ariosto had a simi

Among other ceremonies a pall was thrown over her, lar adventure with Filippo Pachione. See BARUFFALDI.

and a requiem sung.

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Note 162, page 69, col. 1.

As by a spell they start up in array.

Cette race de bandits a ses racines dans la population mème du pays. La police ne sait ou les trouver.. Lettres de CHATEAUVIEUX.

Note 163, page 69, col. 2.

Three days they lay in ambush at my gate.

This story was written in the year 1820, and is founded on the many narratives which at that time were circulating in Rome and Naples.

Note 164, page 71, col. 2.

And in the track of him who went to die.

The Elder Pliny. See the letters in which his Nephew relates to Tacitus the circumstances of his death.

Note 165, page 74, col. 1.

The fishing-town, Amalfi.

Amalfi fell after three hundred years of prosperity; but the poverty of one thousand fishermen is yet dignified by the remains of an arsenal, a cathedral, and the palaces of royal merchants.-GIBBON.

Note 166, page 74, col. 2.

A Hospital, that, night and day, received
The pilgrims of the west.

It was dedicated to Saint John.

Note 167, page 74, col. 2.

relics of ancient Greece.

Among other things the Pandects of Justinian were
found there in 1137. By the Pisans they were taken
from Amalfi, by the Florentines from Pisa; and they
are now preserved with religious care in the Laurentian
Library.

Note 168, page 74, col. 2.
Grain from the golden vales of Sicily.

There is at this day in Syracuse a street called, La

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

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Note 169, page 74, col. 2.

Not thus did they return,

The tyrant slain.

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It was in the year 839. See Muratori. Art. Chronici shield; and that Giotto, looking after 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?

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 every where 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.

Originally a Greek City under that name, and afterwards a Roman City, under the name of Pæstum. See Mitford's Hist. of Greece, chap. x, sect. 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 altera

tions 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 tattered vehicle.

Then degraded, and belonging to a Vetturino.

Note 177, page 76, col. 2.

A shield as splendid as the Bardi wear.

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

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