25. 11. "bridge which still bears his name." M. Rubaconte was podesta of Florence in 1237 and in addition to laying the foundation stone of this bridge, he also caused the city to be paved. _Villani_, vi. 26. The bridge is now known as the Ponte alle Grazie. 45. 32. "Frederick Barbarossa." Impossible, for Barbarossa died two centuries before. Perhaps Vasari means the Emperor Frederick III. 51. 31. "Ser Ciappelletto," the hero of the first story in Boccaccio's _Decameron_, forger, murderer, blasphemer, fornicator, drunkard and gambler, "he was probably the worst man who was ever born," to crown all, he so deceived the priest to whom he confessed that he was canonised. 55. 23. "S. Giovanni." Bk. i., cap. 42. Villani states that it was originally built by the Romans in the time of Octavian as a temple to Mars. 67. 25. "M. Farinata degli Uberti."_Cf_, p. 30 above. After the battle of Montaperti in 1260, in which the Sienese aided by the Ghibelline exiles of Florence won a complete victory over the Florentines, a council was held in which it was proposed to destroy Florence utterly. The project was defeated by Farinata, one of the most prominent of the victorious Florentines. _Villani_, bk. vi., cap. 81. _Cf_, Dante _Inferno_, x. 1. 92. 75. 19. "M. Forese da Rabatta," _Decameron_, 6th Day, Novella 5. 81. 23. "life of the patient Job." It is now a well established fact that these frescoes were painted by Francesco da Volterra in 1371, several years after Giotto's death. 85. 10. "Oh dissi lui," etc. "Oh," I exclaimed, "Art thou not Oderigi, art not thou Agobbio's glory, glory of that art Which they of Paris call the limner's skill? Brother, said he, with tints that gayer smile, Bolognian Franco's pencil lines the leaves. His all the honour now; mine borrowed light." --Cary. 102. 4. "Franco Sacchetti," born at Florence in 1335. His Novelle were considered the best after those of Boccaccio. 110. 24. Where the Giglion joins the Chiassa There did my ancestors flourish Who bear six golden stones on azure ground.