"On Dunmore Heath I also slewe
A monstrous wild and cruell beaste
Called the Dun Cow of Dunmore plaine,
Who many people had opprest."
--_Guy_, _Earl of Warwick_.
The Via Vacchereccia is a very short street leading from the Signoria to
the Via Por San Maria. _Vaccherricia_, also _Vacchereccia_, means a cow,
and is also applied scornfully to a bad woman. The following legend was
given to me as accounting for the name of the place. A well-known Vienna
beerhouse-restaurant, Gilli and Letta's, has contributed much of late
years to make this street known, and it was on its site that, at some
time in "the fabled past," the building stood in which dwelt the witch
who figures in the story.