• Latian, or Italian; any one of the Latin race. ↩
• The speaker is a certain Griffolino, an alchemist of Arezzo, who practised upon the credulity of Albert, a natural son of the Bishop of Siena. For this he was burned; but was “condemned to the last Bolgia of the ten for alchemy.” ↩
• The inventor of the Cretan labyrinth. Ovid, Metamorphoses VIII :⁠— “Great Daedalus of Athens was the man Who made the draught, and formed the wondrous plan.” Not being able to find his way out of the labyrinth, he made wings for himself and his son Icarus, and escaped by flight. ↩
• Speaking of the people of Siena, Forsyth, Italy , 532, says:⁠— “Vain, flighty, fanciful, they want the judgment and penetration of their Florentine neighbors; who, nationally severe, call a nail without a head chiodo Sanese . The accomplished Signora Rinieri told me, that her father, while Governor of Siena, was once stopped in his carriage by a crowd at Florence, where the mob, recognizing him, called out: ‘ Lasciate passare il Governatore de’ matti. ’ A native of Siena is presently known at Florence; for his very walk, being formed to a hilly town, detects him on the plain.” ↩