Gino Capponi, in his _Storia della Repubblica di Firenze_, vol.i.p.

157, refuses however to reject the legend.
[124] See Capponi, vol.i.pp.

59, 78, for a description of the gay and courteous living of the Florentines upon the end of the thirteenth century.
[125] See the _Descrizione della Peste di Firenze_.
[126] I wish I could here transcribe the most beautiful passage from Ruskin's _Giotto and his Works in Padua_, pp.

11, 12, describing the contrast between the landscape of Valdarno and the landscape of the hills of the Mugello district.

I can only refer readers to the book, printed for the Arundel Society, 1854.
[127] See Trucchi, _Poesie Italiane Inedite_, vol.ii.p.