• Sir Mordred, son of King Arthur. See Le Mort d’Arthure , III ch. 167:⁠— “And there King Arthur smote Sir Mordred under the shield with a foine of his speare throughout the body more than a fadom.” Nothing is said here of the sun’s shining through the wound, so as to break the shadow on the ground, but that incident is mentioned in the Italian version of the Romance of Launcelot of the Lake, L’ illustre e famosa istoria di Lancillotto del Lago , III ch. 162:⁠— “Behind the opening made by the lance there passed through the wound a ray of the sun so manifestly, that Girflet saw it.” ↩
• Focaccia was one of the Cancellieri Bianchi, of Pistoia, and was engaged in the affair of cutting off the hand of his half-brother. See note 95 . He is said also to have killed his uncle. ↩
• Sassol Mascheroni, according to Benvenuto, was one of the Toschi family of Florence. He murdered his nephew in order to get possession of his property; for which crime he was carried through the streets of Florence nailed up in a cask, and then beheaded. ↩