Also Rogers, Italy , near the end:⁠— “Where the path Is lost in rank luxuriance, and to breathe Is to inhale distemper, if not death; Where the wild-boar retreats, when hunters chafe, And, when the day-star flames, the buffalo-herd Afflicted plunge into the stagnant pool, Nothing discerned amid the water-leaves, Save here and there the likeness of a head, Savage, uncouth; where none in human shape Come, save the herdsman, levelling his length Of lance with many a cry, or Tartar-like Urging his steed along the distant hill, As from a danger.” ↩

• Zara was a game of chance, played with three dice. ↩
• Messer Benincasa of Arezzo, who, while Vicario del Podestà, or Judge, in Siena, sentenced to death a brother and a nephew of Ghino di Tacco for highway robbery. He was afterwards an Auditor of the Ruota in Rome, where, says Benvenuto:⁠— “one day as he sat in the tribunal, in the midst of a thousand people, Ghino di Tacco appeared like Scaevola, terrible and nothing daunted; and having seized Benincasa, he plunged his dagger into his heart, leaped from the balcony, and disappeared in the midst of the crowd stupefied with terror,” ↩