FOOTNOTES:

[129] This perhaps is open to criticism: there is a huge suburb of

course towards Prato, the other barriere are still fairly in the

country.

[130] Villani, _Cronica_, translated by R.E. Selfe (London, 1906), pp.

71-3, 97.

[131] Cf. Fortini and Sermini for instance. See Symonds' _New Italian

Sketches_ (Tauchnitz Ed.), p. 37.