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 NOTES TO THE SECOND BOOK OF THE COURTIER Note 313, page 159. MONSIGNOR OF San Pietro ad Vincula was the title of Cardinal Galeatto della Rovere; see note 189. Note 314, page 159. MONSIGNOR OF Aragon was the title of Cardinal Lu- dovico of Aragon, (born 1474), a natural son of Ferdinand I of Naples, and a half-brother of Alfonso II (see note 31) and Federico III of Naples (see note 401). He was not elevated to the purple until 1519; Castiglione's mention of him as a cardinal in dialogues supposed to take place twelve years earlier, doubtless arose from a natural confusion between the time when and the time of which they were written. Note 315, page 159. ' The BanchV (Banks) was the name of a street in Rome well known in the 15th and i6th centuries. Containing the offices of the papal Curia and magistrates, it became a preferred neighbourhood, and was en- riched with fine buildings, among which was the counting-house of Julius II's finance minister, Agostino Chigi, the greatest banker of his day. Note 316, page 159. 'The Chancery' (Cancelleria) was a palace designed about 1500 by Bramante for Cardinal Riario, but at this time used for public offices and as the residence of Cardinal Galeotto della Rovere, who had en- larged and embellished the building. It was not far from the Banks. Note 317, page 159. San Celso was the name of a street and church near the Banks. The saint (Celsus) whose memory is thus perpetuated was born at what is now Cimiez, near Nice, suffered martyrdom at Rome under Nero, and was finally put to death (together with his master, St. Nazarius) at Milan in the year 69. Note 318, page 160. Cesare Beccadello is regarded by Cian as possibly identical with a certain Bolognese, who was the son of Domenico Maria Bec- cadello, married Landomia Fasanini, and 'was living at the papal court as late as 1559. The Spanish annotator Fabi6 suggests that he was the father (1502) of the author Ludovico Beccadello, who was a follower of Bembo and wrote biographies of Petrarch and others. Note 319, page 161. These are characters occurring in the third, sixth and ninth tales of the Eighth Day, and in the fifth tale of the Ninth Day. Note 320, page 161. This knavish student seems to be identical with a certain Caio Caloria Ponzio, who was born at Messina. Of his life little more is known than that he studied law at Padua between 1479 and 1488, and, after residing two years at Venice, returned to Sicily. For an account of a short poem by him in praise of Venice, and of his dialect comedy dedicated to the Marquess of Mantua, see Vittorio Rossi's Caio Caloria Ponsio, e la poesia Tjolgare letteraria di Sicilia nel Secolo XV, reprinted (Palermo, 1893) from the Archimo Storico Siciliano, N. S., A., xviii. 383