And it is to be remembered that she came to the subject absolutely new to it.

She would have known otherwise, that the _Case_ situated in the Oltr' Arno quarter, were almost all noble.

That ward of the city was the Florentine _quartier St.Germain_.] "Concerning the phrase _in piazza_, and _in mercato_, my choice of them was partly founded on the colloquial usage as represented by Sacchetti, whose dialogue is intensely idiomatic.

Also _in piazza_ is, I believe, used by the historians (I think even by Macchiavelli), when speaking of popular _turn-outs_.

The ellipse took my fancy because of its colloquial stamp.