1. Under your yerd: under your rod; as the emblem of
government or direction.
2. Francesco Petrarca, born 1304, died 1374; for his Latin epic
poem on the carer of Scipio, called “Africa,” he was solemnly
crowned with the poetic laurel in the Capitol of Rome, on
Easter-day of 1341.
3. Linian: An eminent jurist and philosopher, now almost
forgotten, who died four or five years after Petrarch.
4. Saluces: Saluzzo, a district of Savoy; its marquises were
celebrated during the Middle Ages.
5. Emilia: The region called Aemilia, across which ran the Via
Aemilia — made by M. Aemilius Lepidus, who was consul at
Rome B.C. 187. It continued the Flaminian Way from
Ariminum (Rimini) across the Po at Placentia (Piacenza) to
Mediolanum (Milan), traversing Cisalpine Gaul.