dessinés, laid out

P. 43, 1.29. du puissant duc de Bourgogne. On the subject of the intended crusade, see Biographie universelle, sv. Philippe le Bon.

The Duke’s subjects granted him fresh subsidies, on condition that they should be employed on his véage d’outre mer. ‘The order of the Golden Fleece was founded by Philip the Good in 1430, on the occasion of his marriage with the daughter of king John of Portugal. On the banquet here alluded to see M. Kirk's Æistory of Charles the Bold, vol. 1. pp. 87—89. The pheasant, the heron, the peacock and the swan, were held in high estimation during the middle ages, and styled “ viande des preux.”

: 1.36. es preux, the gallant knights. (O.F. γε. L. frobus.) Deriv. prouesse, formerly 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 vu le Duc de Bourgogne avant de le voir lui-même.”

1. 35 TUSCULUM, now Frascali, a village near Rome. OSTIE (L. Ostia), a séaport town at the mouth of the Tiber.

P. 47, 1. 12. BELGRADE (the white city, in L. Sirgidunum ἢ Taurunum ? Alba Græca), a city in Servia, was besieged in 1456 by the Turks under Mahomet Il., and defended with heroism by Huniad.

1. 18. MANTOUE. ‘The council was summoned in 1459 by Pius 11., at MANTUA (It. Mantova), a town in Venetia. Virgil was burn at Andes, in the neighbourhood. The Duke of Burgunäy was then PHILIP III, (44e Good) (1396—1467) ; the Duke of Brittany was Francis 11. (1435—1488). FRANCESCO SFORZA, Duke of Milan (1401 —1466). MONEMBASIA, also called Vapoli di Malvasia. |