• This is Jacopo del Cassero of Fano, in the region between Romagna and the kingdom of Naples, then ruled by Charles de Valois (Charles Lackland). He was waylaid and murdered at Oriago, between Venice and Padua, by Azzone the Third of Este. ↩
• Leviticus 17:2:⁠— “The life of the flesh is in the blood.” ↩
• Among the Paduans, who are called Antenori, because their city was founded by Antenor of Troy. Brunetto Latini, Tresor , I ch. 39, says:⁠— “Then Antenor and Priam departed thence, with a great company of people, and went to the Marca Trevisana, not far from Venice, and there they built another city which is called Padua, where lies the body of Antenor, and his sepulchre is still there.” ↩
• La Mira is on the Brenta, or one of its canals, in the fen-lands between Padua and Venice. ↩