II. 3-5. Sol de Jérusalem

Sainte terre enlevée aux monts de la Judée.

It is said that the soil used in the Campo Santo of Pisa was brought from the Holy Land by Archbishop Ubaldo (1188- 1 200) in fifty-three vessels.

1. 16. Giotto died at Florence in 1336. Barbier thinks of him hère because Giotto, who was both a painter and an architect, was very fond of frescoes. His merit as regenerator of painting is fully recognized by the line written for his tomb by Angelo Politian : —

' Ille ego sum per quem pictura extincta revixit.'

\. 11. Salut/ noble Orcagna ! After Giotto, Orcagna was perhaps the greatest of the early Florentine artists (1308 ?-68). He was alike a painter, sculptor, and architect : a poet too, like Michael Angelo. In the Campo Santo at Pisa he painted the Triumph of Death and the Last Judgement under the spell of Dante. He used to sign his architectural and sculptural work as painter, and his pictorial work as sculptor. His real name was Andréa di Cione, but he was styled Arcagnuolo (the A-çhangel), shortened to Orcagna.

Page 39. 1. 69. c'est un joueur en veiney a gambler in a run of good luck.

Page 41. 1. 118. Assiègent les côtés. Côtés is not a poetical licence for côtes, but the right use of the word (sides). Cf. Boileau, Sat. vi : —

'Bientôt quatre bandits lui serrant les côtés.' 1. 122. à leurs têtes l'cinees, on which the veins stand out : a curions revival of the early sensé. Notice the period, 11. 117-28.