Bassora, on the Euphrates, founded by Omar in

P. 21, 1. 15. LES Albizzi, a powerful Florentine family, who during the i4th and i5th centuries led tlie aristocratie parly, and fought against the Medicis and Albertis.

P. 22, 1. 9. azymites (Gr. a^/yttos, from à privât, and ^'it-i], leaven), liter. those who eat unleavened bread.

1. 14. Marc Théodore. On the part played by the bishop of Ephesus at the council of Florence, see Milman's Hist. of Latin Christianity, vol. VI. pp. 288 — 9. He denounced Bessarion as an apostate.