. 6, "_Villa_;" and, in the shape of
a poetical dialogue, in Vigo, _Raccolta amplissima di Canti popolari
siciliani_. Secunda ediz. Catania, 1870-1874, No. 5145.

The story is told of Pier delle Vigne by Jacopo d'Aqui (XIII. cent.) in
his _Chronicon imaginis mundi_, and of the Marchese di Pescara by
Brantome, _Vie des Dames galantes_. These versions will be found with
copious references in Pitre and Imbriani as cited above: see also,
_Cantilene e Ballate, Strambotti e Madrigali nei Secoli XIII. e XIV._, A
cura di Giosue Carducci, Pisa, 1871, p. 26. The story is discussed in an
exhaustive manner by S. Prato in the _Romania_, vol. XII. p. 535; XIV.
p. 132, "_L' Orma del Leone_."

[26] For the Oriental versions see _Essai sur les Fables indiennes_,
_par_ A. Loiseleur Deslongchamps, Paris, 1838, p. 96; _Das Buch von den
sieben weisen Meistern_, aus dem Hebraeischen und Griechischen zum ersten
Male uebersetzt von H. Sengelmann, Halle, 1842, p. 40 (_Mischle
Sandabar_), p. 87 (_Syntipas_), _Tausend und Eine Nacht_, Deutsch von
Max Habicht, Von der Hagen und Schall, Breslau, 1836, vol. XV. p. 112
(Arabic); _Li Romans des Sept Sages_, nach der Pariser Handschrift
herausgegeben von H. A. Keller, Tuebingen, 1836, p. cxxxviii.;
_Dyocletianus Leben_, von Hans von Buehel, herausgegeben von A. Keller,
Quedlinburg und Leipzig, 1841, p. 45. All students of this subject are
acquainted with Domenico Comparetti's masterly essay _Ricerche intorno
al Libro di Sindibad_, Milan, 1869, which has recently been made
accessible to English readers in a version published by the English
Folk-Lore Society in 1882. The Persian and Arabic texts may be consulted
in an English translation, reprinted with valuable introduction and
notes in the following work: _The Book of Sindibad; or, The Story of
the King, his Son, the Damsel, and the Seven Vazirs_, From the Persian
and Arabic, with Introduction, Notes, and an Appendix, by W. A.
Clouston. Privately printed, 1884 [Glasgow], pp. xvii.-lvi.

[27] For the original version in the various forms of the Western _Seven
Wise Masters_, see Loiseleur-Deslongchamps, p. 162; Keller, _Romans_, p.
ccxxix., and _Dyocletianus_, p. 63; and D'Ancona, _Il Libro dei Sette
Savi di Roma_, p. 121. To the references in D'Ancona may be added: _Deux
Redactions du Roman des Sept Sages_, G. Paris, Paris, 1876, pp. 47, 162;
Benfey, in _Orient und Occident_, III. 420; _Romania_, VI. p. 182;
_Melusine_, p. 384; and _Basque Legends_, c