Note 422 — Chapter II

On the Piovano Arlotto, who died in 1483, see D. M. Manni, Veglie Piacevoli (3rd ed., Flor. 1816), where are many details of the jests and buffooneries. The Novella del Grasso Legnaiuolo has been often printed and imitated; there is an edition with introduction by D. Moreni (Flor. 1820). Gaye (l. c. i. 169) has produced some original documents which cast some doubt on the accounts of the ‘fat cabinet-maker’ collected by Manni; the claims of Antonio Manetti, known from his connection with the Dante-literature (cf. ante, p. 51), to the authorship of the story have been lately vindicated. Cf. Papanti, Catalogo dei Novellieri (Livorno, 1871), vol. ii. 11. The story of Bianco Alfani is in Manni’s edition of the Cento novelle anticke (Flor. 1782), i. 211 et seq.