Note 684 — Chapter III · THE DISCOVERY OF NATURAL BEAUTY.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
It would be hard to say what else he had to do at the top of the Bismantova in the province of Reggio, Purgat. iv. 26. The precision with which he brings before us all the parts of his supernatural world shows a remarkable sense of form and space. That there was a belief in the existence of hidden treasures on the tops of mountains, and that such spots were regarded with superstitious terror, may be clearly inferred from the Chron. Novaliciense, ii. 5, in Pertz, Script. vii., and Monum. hist. patriae, Script. iii.