Scène

loi. maison commune, communal house, or city hall.

113. sermonne, nuist be exhorting you to courage and confidence.

121. vipère expresses his hatred of Filippo's deformity rather than of his character.

Le Luthier de Crémone Notes, 126-274

126. sainte patronne, patron saint, i.e. saint under whose invocation she had been baptized.

144. Observe the rhetorical effect of the "romantic" triplex division of this line and of 148. See Introduction, p. xi.

150. Philomèle, Lat. Philomela, a mythological classical princess who was transformed into a nightingale.