Note 81 — XII PISA

This palace is now the Opera del Duomo. The sculpture has disappeared and only the French device remains. The inscription referred to by Montaigne was renewed in 1695 by Giulio Gaetani:

“Ædile Joanne Mariani Christianiss. Gallorum Hierusalem et Siciliæ—Citra forum Rex Carolus VIII. in his—Divæ Matris Ædibus idus Novemb.:—1485 ex insperato comedit—Pisanæ libertatis argumentum nunquam—Tantam Magnus Alexander liberalitatem—Ostendit.”