"

The accompanying woodcut is the reproduction of the frontispiece of a
black-letter tract, composed by Augustinus de Crema, in honour of the
"translation" of one of the sainted martyr's arms to Crema, in Lombardy.
It was printed at Cremona, in 1493.]

[396] {340} Shakespeare is my authority for the word "Ottomite" for
Ottoman. "Which Heaven hath forbid the Ottomites" (see _Othello_, act
ii. sc. 3, line 161).--[MS. D.]

[397] ["On 29th September (1669) Candia, and the island of Candia,
passed away from Venice, after a defence which had lasted twenty-five
years, and was unmatched for bravery in the annals of the
Republic."--_Venice, an Historical Sketch_, by Horatio F. Brown, 1893,
p. 378.]

[398] ["The battle of Lepanto [October 7, 1571] lasted five hours....
The losses are estimated at 8000 Christians and 30,000 Turks.... The
chief glory of the victory rests with Sebastian Veniero and the
Venetians."--_Venice, etc._, 1893, p. 368.]

[399] {341} [The story is told in Plutarch's _Life of Nicias_, cap.
xxix. (_Plut. Vit_., Lipsiae, 1813, v. 154). "The dramas of Euripides
were so popular throughout all Sicily, that those Athenian prisoners who
knew ... portions of them, won the affections of their masters.... I
cannot refrain from mentioning this story, though I fear its
trustworthiness ... is much inferior to its pathos and
interest."--Grote's _History of Greece_, 1869, vii. 186.]

[lr] _And won her hopeless children from afar_.--[MS. M., D. erased.]

[ls]
_And sends him ransomeless to bless his poet's strains_.--[MS. M.]
or, _And sends him home to bless the poet for his strains_.--
[MS. D. erased.]

[lt] {342} _Thy love of Tassa's verse should cut the knot_.--[MS. M.]

[400] [By the Treaty of Paris, May 3, 1814, Lombardy and Venice, which
since the battle of Austerlitz had formed part of the French kingdom of
Naples, were once more handed over to Austria. Great Britain was
represented by "a bungler even in its disgusting trade" (_Don Juan_,
Dedication, stanza xiv.), Lord Castlereagh.]

[lu] ----_for come it will and shall_.--[MS. M., D. erased.]

[lv] _And Otway's--Radcliffe's--Schiller's--Shakspeare's art_.--[MS. M.,
D.]

[401] Venice Preserved; Mysteries of Udolpho; The Ghost-Seer, or
Armenian; The Merchant of Venice; Othello.

[For _Venice Preserved, vide ante_, stanza iv. line 7, note. To the
_Mysteries of Udolpho_ Byron was indebted fo