conseil des Dix, autocratie goveming body at Venice

3. la ville de la banque. The Medici family, rulers of Florence, had been rich bankers. The three balls of modem pawnbrokers are said to be derived from the three balls on the arms of the Medici banking family.

Page 10« — I. archange, ch pronounced as a k.

2. Ferdinand. Ferdinand II. and Alfonso II., kings of Naples.

3. Alexandre VI, the infamous pope, Roderic Borgia, ruled 1492-1503.

Page 11. — I. sacré collège, of cardinals.

Page 12« — I. soties. A sottie or sotie was a play, with a political or a moral meaning. It was much in vogue at the end of the Middle Ages.

2. Maximilien. Maxlmilian of Austria, emperor of Germany, reigned 1 493-1 519.

3. Gilles, a clownish and cowardly character of the French théâtre; but not, as Michelet implies, under this name, in the théâtre of the late Middle Ages.