Uscoques {deserters) , Servians settled in Dalmatia

Page 94. — 8. Horace, Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 b.c.), famous poet, moralist and satirist. For contempt of wealth, cf. his Carminum Liber II, 18, and Liber III.

16-17. banquiers lombards et florentins. Lombardy and Florence were famous for their bankers. “Lombard” long meant “banker” in England.

24. fondaks, Italian fondaco (plural fondachi), free municipal lodging houses, with warehouses attached, for foreign merchants visiting Venice.

Page 96. — i. Corte delle GaUi, a quarter of V'enice. This is the manuscript reading; the correct form of the name is Corte del Gallo. — Ghetto, the old quarter of the Jews, in the northern part of the city.

16. Temple, the great Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem, containing the Holy of Holies, burned by Titus, afterwards emperor, in 70 A.D.

19-20. fenêtres . . . infidèle. This rule seems at least to have been applied to the Turks. The Jews were not allowed to open their doors between sunset and sunrise.

25. Canal, the Canal Grande, the great artery of communication in Venice, lined on both shores w'ith many famous buildings.

25-26. rouelle jaune. Yellow was considered, from antiquity, the color of infamy. By a decree of the fourth Lateran Council (1215), Jews had to wear a distinctive mark sewed on the outer garment. The rouelle was a wheel-shaped badge.

NOTES

Page 96. — 21. église dell’Orto, the Gothic church of the Madonna dell’Orto (rising of a star), not far from the Ghetto.

Page 97. — 18. pirates . . . Égypte. African piracy in the Mediterranean, rife since the fall of Rome, was particularly flagrant in the fourteenth century and was not suppressed until the nineteenth. The great Spanish author, Cervantes, was held prisoner in Algiers by pirates from 1575 to 1580.

Page 98. — ■ 26-27. ^ s’en fallait de vingt-quatre heures, it

lacked (only) twenty-four hours.

Page 99. — ■ 20. Étoile de la mer, Stella maris, a common appellation of the Virgin.