separated by a small decorative acorn. Here a similar symbol, ❦ has
been used to separate the pieces.
The titles of many pieces were printed in the margin, next to the start
of the piece. They are shown here as sidenotes.
Some short pieces are not mentioned in the Contents.
Footnotes have been numbered 1 to 18 and have been moved to the end of
the piece they elucidate.
Variant spelling, unconventional punctuation (for example, some opening
quotation marks are closed more than a paragraph or stanza later, and
some are not closed at all) and inconsistant hyphenation are retained.
The use of accents has not been altered. A few changes, however, have
been made, they are:
Page xvi “Pausilppo” changed to “Pausilippo” in the Contents.
Page xii the entry in the Contents for “Charles X.” has been changed to
“Charles V.”
Page 3 “Cardinal d’Estrée” changed to “Cardinal d’Estrées” in the
heading.
Page 63 “Linksum kehrt eveh marsek” has been changed to “Linksum kehrt
euch marsch”.
Page 119 “rocks” changed to “rooks” in “the rooks and the ravens came
into the towns”.
Page 153, Machevelli's age in 1494 was printed as 29, instead of 24.