[71] Jean Baptists Michaud, a member of the Directoire du departement du
Doubs, and a member of the National Convention, voted the death of
Louis XVI and against the proposed appeal to the people. - ED.
[72] Jean Daniel Paul Etienne Levade (1750-1834), Protestant minister first
in England, then in Amsterdam, finally minister at Lausanne and
professor of theology at the Academie of the same town. - ED.
[73] Countess de Boigne, in her interesting Memoirs (of which there is an
English translation) abstained from describing her husband's career in
India; this lends additional interest to the information collected by
Major Frye, - ED.
[74] The manuscript has Sennar, a name quite unknown at Suza. - ED.
[75] Ariosto, Orlando Furioso, iv, 13, 5. - ED.
[76] This shield, now at the Armoria Reale, is not antique, but is
ascribed to Benvenuto Cellini. - ED.
[77] This statue of Cupid is not antique, and has been recently ascribed to
Michelangelo (Knapp, Michelangelo, p. 155.) - ED.
CHAPTER VIII
Journey from Turin to Bologna - Asti - Schiller and Alfieri - Italian
cuisine - The vetturini - Marengo - Piacenza - The Trebbia - Parma - The
Empress Maria Louisa - Modena - Bologna - The University - The Marescalchi
Gallery - Character of the Bolognese.
August - - 1816
'Twas on a fine morning the 16th August that I took my departure from Turin
with a vetturino bound to Bologna.
