I. 33. dessinés, laid out

P. 43, 1. 29. du puissant duc de Bourgogne. On the subject of tlie intended crusade, see Biographie universelle, s. v. Philippe le Bon.

Tlie Duke's subjects granted him fresh subsidies, on condition that they should be employed on bis véage d'outre vier. The order of the Golden Fleece was founded by Philip the Good in 1430, on the occasion of his marriage %vith the daughter of king John of Portugal. On the banquet hère alluded to see M. Kirk"s History of Charles the Bold, vol. I. pp. 87 — 89. The pheasant, the héron, the peacock and the swan, were held in high estimation during the middle âges, and styled " viande des preux."

1.36. les preux, the gallant knights. {Q.Y. preiis. 1-,. probits.) Deriv. prouesse, fomierly proesse.

P. 45, 1. 3. Louis XI. (1428— 1483), son of Charles VII. " On prétend même que Louis XI. humilia Bessarion en pleine audience par de dures plaisanteries. Il était irrité de ce que Bessarion avait \ti le Duc de Bourgogne avant de le voir lui-même."

1. 35. TuscuLUM, now Frascati, a village near Rome. OsTiE (L, Ostia), a seaport to\\Ti at the mouth of the Tiber.

P. 47, 1. 12. Belgrade (the wh'te city, in L. Singidunum? Taiiru?iiim? Alha Grœca), a city in Servia, was besieged in 1456 by the Turks under Mahomet IL, and defended with heroism by Huniad.

1. 18. Maxtoue. The council was summoned in 1459 by Plus IL, at Mantua (It. Majîtoz'à), a town in Venetia. Virgil was bom at Andes, in the neighbourhood. The Duke of Burgundy was then Philip III. {the Good) (1396 — 1467); the Duke of Brittany was Francis IL (1435 — 14S8). Francesco Sforza, Duke of Milan (1401 — 1466). Mo.NEMBASiA, also callçd iVapoli di Malvasia.