Note 792 — Chapter VIII · DESCRIPTIONS OF LIFE IN MOVEMENT.
S. G. C. (Samuel George Chetwynd) Middlemore translation
In general the prosperity of the Italian peasants was greater then than that of the peasantry anywhere else in Europe. Comp. Sacchetti, nov. 88 and 222; L. Pulci in the Beca da Dicamano (Villari, Macchiavelli, i. 198, note 2).