Note 13 — Chapter II · THE TYRANNY OF THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
With the parenthetical request, in reference to a previous conversation, that the prince would again forbid the keeping of pigs in the streets of Padua, as the sight of them was unpleasing, especially for strangers, and apt to frighten the horses.