[233] Muratori, Dissert. 23. Muratori describes from a contemporary chronicle the entrance of Charles. The carriage of the Queen seems to have excited great astonishment, as carriages were in those days seldom used by ladies, and seldomer by men. [234] Giannone, Istoria Civile di Napoli, lib. xx. c. 3. s. 1. [235] When that political coxcomb, Cola de Rienzi, thought fit to be knighted, he would not bathe in the ordinary way, but made use of the vase wherein, according to tradition, Constantine had been baptised. Vita di Cola Rienzi, c. 25. [236] Muratori, Dissert. 29. 53. [237] Sacchetti, Novelle, c. 153. [238] Muratori, Dissert. 53. Thus, when Hildebrand Guatasca, in 1260, was made a knight at the expence of the city of Arezzo, he swore fidelity to his lord, or, as grammarians would have it, his lady, the good city that had knighted him. [239] Muratori, Dissert. vol. ii. c. 29. p. 16. [240] Muratori, Scriptores Rerum Italicarum, vol. xii. p. 535. [241] Non ferro sed vino; non lanceis sed caseis; non ensibus sed utribus; non hastibus sed verubus onerantur. [242] Polycraticus, p. 181. [243] Lansdowne Manuscripts, British Museum, No. 285. Article 41. The manuscript breaks off here; but the result of the joust is of no importance to my argument. [244] Brantome, Oeuvres, les Vies des Dames illustres, vol. i. p. 410, &c. Brantome relates this story on the authority of an old-Italian book on Duels, written by one Paris de Puteo. [245] Gesta Stephan. p. 962., cited in Turner's England, vol. i. p. 461. 8vo. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The History of Chivalry, Volume II (of 2), by Charles Mills