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Transcribers' Note
Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant preference was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
Simple typographical errors were corrected, often after referencing other printings or editions of this book.
Occasional unpaired quotation marks have been retained unless the position of the missing one was obvious.
Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained.
Extraneous commas were retained.
Illustrations have been moved closer to the relevant text.
Text uses both "Bölognese" and "Bolognese", "Bölogna" and "Bologna".
Chapter IX does not have a section VII. This appears to be a misprint, not missing text.
Footnotes have been collected and repositioned just before the Index.
Page references in the Index were not checked for accuracy.
Illustrations: The two illustrations listed as facing page 93 were missing from the 1908 edition of this book, but were present in the 1905 edition, and have been added to this eBook.
Page 1: This page was numbered "2", as was the following page.
Page 67: "(in Via de' Gondi.);" was printed that way.
Page 81: "marches" was printed as "le Marche" in the Italian edition.
Page 116: "destruccio fesulana" was printed as "fesulana destruccio" in the Italian edition.
Page 132: Likely misplaced closing quotation mark in footnote 147 (originally 3).
Page 133: "rased" was printed that way; "razed" also occurs in this text.
Page 148: "p. 2 2." at the end of footnote 185 (originally 3) was printed that way.
Page 165: "Bagnuolo" is spelled "Bagunolo" in footnote 217 (originally 2).
Page 199: "August, 1852" probably should be "1252".
Page 220: "instance of Pope" probably should be "insistance".
Page 229: "132,160,8,4" was printed that way.
Page 248: "Guido du Suzzara" was printed that way.
Page 316: "and" in "and villaneschi" was misprinted in italics.
Page 322: "sixth century B.C." probably should be "A.D.".
Page 328: "on board-ship" was printed that way.
Page 329: "zechin" was printed as "zecchino" in the Italian edition.
Page 331: "Brussells" was printed that way.
Page 393: "mundium" is Latinized Longobard (an extinct Germanic language).
Page 411: "mondualdo" is Latinized Longobard.
Page 416: "mundio" is a Longobard word.
Page 420: "when there are direct descendants" was printed as "their".
Page 457: "la securtadi" was printed as "le securtadi" in the Italian edition.
Pages 481, 482: Both "cambii" and "canbii" are used; neither was changed.
Page 513: "Dante was really sent ambassador to Rome" was printed that way.
Footnote 80: Missing period added in "municipal. presid" because the discussion pertains to the meaning of the abbreviation.
Footnote 186: "p. 2 2." was printed that way.
Footnote 288: The word "and" in "Carlo I. and Carlo II" probably should not have been translated, but left as "e".
Footnote 442: "Gerechtigheit" is a misprint for "Gerechtigkeit".