[11] Morgante is the name of a giant converted to Christianity by Orlando. He dies in the middle of the poem.

[12] The evident Greek derivation of this name from margos (gluttonous) lends some countenance to the suspicion that Politian had a hand in Pulci’s poem.

[13] It is curious to note in this connection that Rubiera, the original seat of Boiardo’s family, having become a state prison under the modern Dukes of Modena, gave Panizzi the subject for his first publication, known under the abridged title ofI Processi di Rubiera.