Note 33 — FIRST DISCOURSE
A. R. (Alfred Richard) Allinson translation
P. 47:
◆Ariosto, Orlando furioso, canto XLII., stanza 98.
Ecco un donzello a chi l’ufficio tocca Por su la mensa un bel nappo d’or fino....
◆Very likely Bernardin Turissan. Brantôme is perhaps referring to the Ragionamento della Nanna, printed in Paris in 1534, without the name of the publisher. The peggio must have been one of those infamous Italian books which the noblemen of the court wrangled over. The Nanna was well known at the French court (see Le Divorce satyrique, t. I. of the Journal de Henri III., 1720 edition, p. 190).
◆Bernardino Turisan, who used as his sign the well-known mark of the Manutii, his kinsmen.
◆Pietro Aretino was born at Arezzo in Tuscany in 1492. The natural son of a plain gentleman he became the companion and protégé of Princes, and their unscrupulous and adroit flatterer. Friend of Michael Angelo and Titian. His works are full of learning and wit,—and obscenity.