Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa: With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second EditionHutton, Edward
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Florence and Northern Tuscany with Genoa: With Sixteen Illustrations in Colour by William Parkinson and Sixteen Other Illustrations, Second Edition
Hutton, Edward
Art -- Italy -- Florence; Genoa (Italy) -- History; Tuscany (Italy) -- Description and travel
[39] They imprisoned him in Lucca.
[40] Tronci, _op. cit._ p. 404.
[41] Cronaca Sanese in _Muratori_, xv. 177.
[42] Heywood, _Palio and Ponte_, p. 22.
[43] Tronci, _op. cit._ 412.
[44] A pleasing story of how these citizens found Agnello's house in
darkness and all sleeping within, of his awakened maid-servant and
frightened wife, is told in Marangoni, _Cron. di Pisa_. See _Sismondi_,
ed. Boulting (1906), p. 401.
[45] _See_ Sismondi, _op. cit._ p. 403.
[46] Cf. Sismondi, _op. cit._ p. 557.
[47] Tronci, _op. cit._ p. 18.
[48] Tronci, _op. cit._ p. 453.
[49] The print is dated 1634.
[50] For all things concerning this game and the Palio, see Heywood,
_Palio and Ponte_.
[51] Villani, _op. cit._ Bk. iv. 2. The Badia, like that of Firenze,
seems rather to have been founded by Ugo's mother, Countess Willa.
[52] Tronci, _op. cit._ p. 9.
[53] It may be as well to explain here that the Pisan Calendar differed
not only from our own but from that of other cities of Tuscany. The
Pisans reckoned from the Incarnation. The year began, therefore, on 25th
March: so did the Florentine and the Sienese year, but they reckoned
from a year after the Incarnation. The Aretines, Pistoiese, and
Cortonese followed the Pisans.
[54] Tronci, _op. cit._ p. 21.
[55] 104 yards long by 35-1/2 yards wide.
[56] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, _History of Painting in Italy_, new
edition, 1903, vol. i. pp. 185, 186.
[57] There is a miracle picture, S. Maria sotto gli Orcagni in the
Duomo. Mr. Carmichael, in his book, _In Tuscany_, gives a full account
of this picture. See also my _Italy and the Italians_, pp. 117-120.
[58] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, _op. cit._ vol. i. p. 103.
[59] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, _op. cit._ vol. i. p. 109.
[60] See below, p. 134.
[61] See _On the Old Road through France to Florence_ (Murray, 1904), in
which Mr. Carmichael wrote the Italian part. He has much pleasant
information about the bells of Pisa, p. 223.
[62] Was it here, or in the Ospedale dei Trovatelli close to S. Michele
in Borgo? cf. Tronci, p. 179.
[63] See p. 95.
[64] Crowe and Cavalcaselle, _op. cit_, vol. i. p. 146, note.
[65] See _Pisa_. da I.B. Supino, 1905, p. 43.
[66] See p. 91.
[67] Mr. Carmichael (_On the Old Road through France to Florence_, p.
224) says it must have been worth L30,000 of our money.
[68] Let me refer the reader again to Mr. William Heywood's exhaustive
work on Italian mediaeval games, _Palio and Ponte_, Methuen, 1904.
[69] See also F. Tribolati, _Il Gioco del Ponte_, Firenze, 1877, p. 5.
[70] Many of these banners are hung in the great Salone--the first room
you enter on the first floor of the Museo.
[71] All the coverings and armour are illustrated in the _Oplomachia
Pisana_ of Camillo Borghi. (Lucca, 1713.)
[72] There is a rich literature of poems and _Relazioni_, etc., on the
_Gioco del Ponte_.
[73] F. Tribolati, _Il Gioco del Ponte_, Firenze, 1877. See also
Heywood, _op. cit._ p. 136.
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