• Constance, daughter of Roger of Sicily. She was a nun at Palermo, but was taken from the convent and married to the Emperor Henry V , son of Barbarossa and father of Frederic II . Of these “winds of Suabia,” or Emperors of the house of Suabia, Barbarossa was the first, Henry V the second, and Frederic II the third, and, as Dante calls him in the Convito , IV 3, “the last of the Roman Emperors,” meaning the last of the Suabian line. ↩
• The Heaven of the Moon continued. ↩
• Montaigne says:⁠— “If any one should place us between the bottle and the bacon ( entre la bouteille et le jambon ), with an equal appetite for food and drink, there would doubtless be no remedy but to die of thirst and hunger.” ↩
• Ovid, Metamorphoses , V , Maynwaring’s Tr. :⁠— “As when a hungry tiger near him hears Two lowing herds, awhile he both forbears; Nor can his hopes of this or that renounce, So strong he lusts to prey on both at once.” ↩
• “A similitude,” says Venturi, “of great poetic beauty, but of little philosophic soundness.” ↩