[1] The pilleus was a close fitting felt cap worn by freed men as a mark of their enfranchisement.

[2] “Mattone” signifies literally “an arrant fool.”

[3] The Italian Patarini were married priests and their followers, who are sometimes confounded with the Waldenses, with whom they sympathised, at least in the conviction that compulsory celibacy was unlawful.

[4] As a matter of fact the Archbishop of Memphis did leave the prison under a new régime.