III. 1557.)
[7] G. Villani died in the great plague of 1348. But his book was begun
soon after Marco's was written, for he states that it was the sight of
the memorials of greatness which he witnessed at Rome, during the
Jubilee of 1300, that put it into his head to write the history of the
rising glories of Florence, and that he began the work after his
return home. (Bk. VIII. ch. 36.)
[8] Book V. ch. 29.
[9] Petri Aponensis Medici ac Philosophi Celeberrimi, Conciliator,
Venice, 1521, fol. 97. Peter was born in 1250 at Abano, near Padua,
and was Professor of Medicine at the University in the latter city.
He twice fell into the claws of the Unholy Office, and only escaped
them by death in 1316.
[10] [It is curious that this figure is almost exactly that which among
oriental carpets is called a "cloud." I have heard the term so applied
by Vincent Robinson. It often appears in old Persian carpets, and also
in Chinese designs. Mr. Purdon Clarke tells me it is called nebula
in heraldry; it is also called in Chinese by a term signifying cloud;
in Persian, by a term which he called silen-i-khitai, but of this I
can make nothing. - MS. Note by Yule.]
[11] The great Magellanic cloud? In the account of Vincent Yanez Pinzon's
Voyage to the S.W. in 1499 as given in Ramusio (III. 15) after Pietro
Martire d'Anghieria, it is said:
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