Note 4 — LXXXIV How Messer Azzolino Romano arranged a great charity
Edward Storer translation
In Lombardy and the Marches, the pans are called pots4. Azzolino’s retainers had, out of mischief, taken a potter one day to bring him to judgment, and Messer Azzolino was in the room. He said: who is this man? Some one answered: Sire, he is a potter. Go and hang him then. But, sire, he is a potter. Therefore I say go and hang him. Sire, we are only saying that he is a potter. Well, I say again that you take him and hang him.