A sum given by the bridegroom to the bride the day after the marriage (Morgengabe). ↩
Funeral mourners: properly, paid mourners. ↩
A Sister of the Third Order of Saint Francis: an uncloistered nun. ↩
The name given to the grotesque black-faced figures, supposed to represent the Magi, carried about or placed in the windows on Twelfth Night: a corruption of Epifania. ↩
“Beauteous is life in blossom!
Carnival Song by Lorenzo de’ Medici.
And it fleeteth—fleeteth ever;
Whoso would be joyful—let him!
There’s no surety for the morrow.”
The little Fair. ↩
“Quando una donna è grande, ben formata, porta ben sua persona, siede con una certa grandezza, parla con gravità, ride con modestia, e finalmente getta quasi un odor di Regina; allora noi diciamo quella donna pare una maestà, ella ha una maestà.”
Firenzuola: Della Bellezza delle Donne
“La vacca muglia” was the phrase for the sounding of the great bell in the tower of the Palazzo Vecchio. ↩
The poorer artisans connected with the wool trade—wool-beaters, carders, washers, etc. ↩
The sermon here given is not a translation, but a free representation of Fra Girolamo’s preaching in its more impassioned moments. ↩
“Peccato celato e mezzo perdonato.” ↩
“Se vi pare che io abbia detto poche cose, non ve ne maravigliate, perchè le mie cose erano poche e grandi.” ↩
The largest prison in Florence. ↩
He himself had had occasion enough to note the efficacy of that vehicle. “If,” he says in the Compendium Revelationum, “you speak of such as have not heard these things from me, I admit that they who disbelieve are more than they who believe, because it is one thing to hear him who inwardly feels these things, and another to hear him who feels them not; … and, therefore, it is well said by Saint Jerome, ‘Habet nescio quid latentis energiae vivae vocis actus, et in aures discipuli de auctoris ore transfusa fortis sonat.’ ” ↩
“Del mondo o di maremma.” ↩
The most recent, and in some respects the best, biographer of Savonarola, Signor Villari, endeavours to show that the Law of Appeal ultimately enacted, being wider than the law originally contemplated by Savonarola, was a source of bitter annoyance to him, as a contrivance of the aristocratic party for attaching to the measures of the popular government the injurious results of licence. But in taking this view the estimable biographer lost sight of the fact that, not only in his sermons, but in a deliberately prepared book (the Compendium Revelationum) written long after the Appeal had become law, Savonarola enumerates among the benefits secured to Florence, “the Appeal from the Six Votes, advocated by me, for the greater security of the citizens
.” ↩
The old diarists throw in their consonants with a regard rather to quantity than position, well typified by the Ragnolo Braghiello (Agnolo Gabriello) of Boccaccio’s Ferondo. ↩
Parish priest. ↩
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