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 NOTES TO THE SECOND BOOK OF THE COURTIER be found inscribed the grant to the Venetians of their dominion over the Adriatic." Note 222, page 136. In the Roman Church a " station " (stasione) is a church where indulgences are granted at certain seasons. In earlier times such churches were visited in solemn procession, which afterwards came to be regarded as an opportunity for social recreation. The word is used also to designate the indulgences earned by visiting, on appointed days, many churches founded by popes. Note 223, page 136. "As many stars as heaven, so many girls hath thy Rome," Ovid's Ars Amandi, I, 59. Note 224, page 136. "As many kids as the pasture, so many satyrs hath thy Rome," is as close an English rendering as Donato's Latin will bear. Note 225, page 136. Marcantonio della Torre belonged to an ancient noble family of Verona, 'was a famous anatomist, and is said to have included Leonardo da Vinci among his pupils. He died at the age of thirty, and was highly praised for his learning. His father Geronimo lectured on medicine at Padua. Pietro Barozzi became Archbishop of Padua in 1487, and died in 1507. Bandello (who had read THE COURTIER in MS.) relates the same story in somewhat wittier form, but gives the name of the prelate as Gerardo Landriano, Bishop of Como. Note 226, page 137. St. Luke, xvi, 2. Note 227, page 137. St. Matthew, xxv, 20. Note 228, page 137. Proto da LUCCA was one of the most famous buffoons who enlivened the pontifical court at the beginning of the i6th century. If, as seems probable, the incident in question occurred in January 1506 (when Ber- nardino Lei died and was succeeded by Antonio da Castriani as Bishop of Cagli, a town near Urbino), the pope in question must have been Julius II, to whom the epithet ' very grave ' would be entirely appropriate. Note 229, page 138. The play is upon the word 'office' in its two meanings of post or employment, and breviary or prayer-book. In the latter sense, the 'full office' contained the psalms, lessons, etc., — while the 'Madonna's office' was much abbreviated. Note 230, page 138. GIOVANNI Calfurnio, (born 1443; died 1503), was a gentle and laborious humanist, born at or near Bergamo, but long resident at Padua, where he held the chair of rhetoric. His chief work consisted in cor- recting and commenting upon the texts of Latin poets. The ' another man at 366