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 NOTES TO THE FOURTH BOOK OF THE COURTIER Note 481, page 308. Plotinus was born in Egypt about 204 A.D., and taught philosophy at Rome. He lived so exclusively the life of speculation that he seemed ashamed of bodily existence, and concealed his parentage, birthplace and age. Note 482, page 308. St. Francis, (Gianfrancesco Bernardone, 1182-1226), was born and died at Assisi near Perugia, and was canonized in 1288. Note 483, page 308. II Corinthians, xii, 2-4. Note 484, page 308. Acts, vii, 54-60. Note 485, page 308. St. Luke, vii, 37. Note 486, page 309. Mount Catria lies less than twenty miles to the south- ward of Urbino, between Pergola and Gubbio, and rises a little more than a mile above the sea level. It is mentioned by Dante in the Paradiso (xxi, log). The stamp imprinted on the cover of this volume was engraved from an enlarged outline drawing made by Mr. Kenyon Cox from a photograph of one of the many examples of Castiglione's seal preserved in the Royal State Archives at Mantua. 416