They were not abandoned by their husbands, who, content with little, did not go to traffic in France. ↩

Monna Cianghella della Tosa was a gay widow of Florence, who led such a life of pleasure that her name has passed into a proverb, or a common name for a dissolute woman.

Lapo Salterello was a Florentine lawyer, and a man of dissipated habits; and Crescimbeni, whose mill grinds everything that comes to it, counts him among the poets, Volgar Poesia , III 82, and calls him a Rimatore di non poco grido , a rhymer of no little renown. Unluckily he quotes one of his sonnets. ↩