Note 415 — Chapter V

D. M. Manni, Sigilli antichi, xix. 127; xx. 39. Poccianti: Chronicon rerum s. ord. Servorum B. M. Virginis, Flor. 1569, p. 3. In Florence there are still a few memorials of the Laudesi. On the Cathedral (formerly Sta. Reparata) is an inscription on the side turned towards the Campanile: ‘S. Societatis Laudensium B. M. Virginis qui congregantur in ecclesia Ste. Reparate, anno Dom. MCCCX. de mense Novemb.’ (see Firenze, antica e moderna illustrata, ii. 112). In Via dello Pappe, now Via Folco Portinari: ‘Questa casa è de la compagnia de Laudesi di Sancta Maria che si raguna in Sancta Liperata.’ The chapel of the Laudesi of Sta. Croce was where the splendid Niccolini chapel began to be built in 1585 (F. Moisè, Santa Croce di Firenze p. 198). In the Decameron (Giorn. vii. Nov. 1) the Laudesi of Sta. Maria Novella and their good-natured superintendent, Gianni Lottaringhi, is mentioned (D. M. Manni, Istoria del Decamerone, p. 460; Fr. Sansovino, in his edition of the Decameron, Ven. 1549); see Fr. Cionacci, Rime sacre di Lorenzo de’ Medici, 2nd edit. Bergamo, 1760, p. xxi.