{126} The reader may observe that these popular names of Oratorio and Orto are most likely to have given the prefix _Or’_. {150} _Ha tanta lingua che spazzarebbe un forno_, _ò un cesso_. Said of virulent gossips. {152} _Mago_, which, like _magus_, implies more dignity than magician or sorcerer. {153} “The Mugnone, whose course has been shifted to the west, formerly flowed into the Arno, through the heart of the city.”—_Murray’s Handbook for Travellers in Central Italy_. {155} _L’anguilla si rizzo in piedi_—“The eel rose upon her feet.” This will remind the reader of some of the difficulties experienced by Gothic artists in depicting Eve and the Serpent. {156} There is much confusion here. It appears that the fairy made the fountain now in the Signoria, and that Biancone saw this in a vision. {158} This refers to the satyrs who are among the bronze figures below Neptune. {161a} I here omit a long, detailed, and wearisome account of the research, which, however, indicates the accuracy with which the tradition had been preserved, and the full belief in it of the narrator. {161b} A kind of cruel pillory. {162} In allusion to seeing it from behind the squares formed by the grates of iron before prison windows. {164} Landucci, 233, cited by Scaife. {171} Una medichessa. {177} Not a fairy here, but a witch of a certain degree. {180} Si la Messa de Villani era finito. {181} E appunto hora comincia quella delle puttane, pero caminate, che farete a tempo con l’altre. {189} Nella guerra d’amor, che fugge vince. {196} Viene tutte le mattine Colle sue belle manine. Though very rude, even to illiteracy in _form_, the train of thought is here very gracefully managed in the original. {201} So called because criminals passed through it on their way to execution. {202} “Da qualche bacio Vi chascha il _vero_ bacio d’amor.” —_Original_. {203a} “Altrimenti L’avrebbero levato il collare.”—_Original_. {203b} “In una altra stella Per raggiungere la sua bella.”—_Original_. {205} _Faceva il verso del lupo_, the deep baying which is a subject of superstition in all countries. {207} Friedrich, “Symbolik der Natur.” {208} A humming-top. {212} The Philological Society (_Circolo_), has also its rooms in this building. {213} Perche si rendeva alle persone troppo triviale—A graphic sketch of a character who would be peculiarly offensive in a highly patrician community. {220} “Col mio pugnale ammazato, Col pugnale e sotterato.” {224} Since writing the foregoing, I have found in _Am Urquelle_, vol. vi. 3, May 1895, a legend credited to a book by A. Bondeson, _Historic Gulbar på Dal_ (Stockholm, 1886), or a story entitled “The Lover with a Green Beard,” which is much the same in incident as this. The editor, H. Feilberg, notices the affinity of this and other tales to the Vampyre and Burger’s “Leonora.”