From the dates already cited, it may be assumed that the Pisan edition of Adonais was in London in the hands of Mr. Ollier towards the middle of August, 1821, purchasable by whoever might be minded to buy it.

After the publication in London of the Pisan edition of Adonais, the poem remained unreprinted until 1829.

The Cambridge edition, an octavo in paper wrappers, is now still scarcer than the Pisan one.

For the text of Adonais in the present edition I naturally have recourse to the original Pisan edition, but without neglecting such alterations as have been properly introduced into later issues; these will be fully indicated and accounted for in my Notes.

Gozzoli, who lived and worked through the middle of the fifteenth century, is chiefly known by his large and graceful compositions in the Pisan Campo Santo.

A rich Pisan convoy, on its voyage from Sardinia, captured by the Genoese.

And he when toward the bloom of his sweet youth the down began to shade his darkening cheek, took counsel with himself speedily to take to him for his wife the noble Hippodameia from her Pisan father's hand.

For the sake of Psaumis' mule-chariot it draweth nigh to theePsaumis, who, crowned with Pisan olive, hasteth to raise up glory for Kamarina.

Miniature in "Othea," Poem by Christine de Pisan (Brussels Library).

Thus, in the second half of the fourteenth century, the famous Christine de Pisan relates that, having gone to visit the wife of a merchant during her confinement, it was not without some amazement that she saw the sumptuous furniture of the apartment in which this woman lay in bed (Fig. 59).

Benozzo Gozzoli introduced his portrait, together with the portraits of his noble pupils, in a fresco of the Pisan Campo Santo.

It is difficult to understand how anyone could trace such a resemblance between this rectangular ambo and the hexagonal structure in the Pisan Baptistery as would justify them in asserting both to be the products of the same school.

2. What is the precise meaning of the term "pisan," so often used, in old records, for some part of defensive armour, particularly in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries?

Meaning of "Pisan.

Turner (No. 7. p.100.) asks the meaning of the term pisan, used in old records for some part of defensive armour.

pisan may be a contraction for partisan, a halberd.

Charles had the spirit of coolness and discretion; and "he thought," says his contemporary, Christine de Pisan, "that if this fellow had been slain, the city which had been so rebellious might probably have been excited thereby.

"The king," says Christine de Pisan, "showed no great outward emotion, and quite coolly, as if the topic of conversation were something else, turned and looked about him, and, seeing one of his secretaries, summoned him courteously, and bade him, in a whisper, write word to Louis de Sancerre, his marshal, to come to him directly.

"GASTROS" has also obligingly replied to my query as to "the meaning of the term Pisan, used in old records for some part of defensive armour," but he seems to have forgotten that I expressly stated that term had no relation to "the fabrics of Pisa;" at least such is my belief.

At any rate, the translation of the passage in the inventory to which "GASTROS" refers should be, "three Pisan collerets of steel mail," not that given by Meyrick.

Here we have clearly a fabric of Pisa: whereas the pisan, of which I desire to know the meaning, invariable occurs as an independent term, e.g. "item, unum pisanum," or "unum par pisanorum."

indeed in which such a contraction as pisan for partisan can be found.

Barons, Vous qui m'avez suivi jusqu'à cette montagne, Normands, Lorrains, marquis des marches d'Allemagne, Poitevins, Bourguignons, gens du pays Pisan, Bretons, Picards, Flamands, Français, allez-vous-en! Guerriers, allez-vous-en d'auprès de ma personne, Des camps où l'on entend mon noir clairon qui sonne Rentrez dans vos logis, allez-vous-en chez vous, Allez-vous-en d'ici, car je vous chasse tous!

Carved Oak Bedstead and Chair The New Born Infant Portrait of Christine De Pisan State Banquet with Attendant Musicians (Two Woodcuts)

Yet both in Greece and Rome, as we learn from the 'Republic' (Books i. iii.) of Plato, and from the whole scope of the poem of Lucretius, and from the Painted Porch at Delphi, answering to the frescoes of the Pisan Campo Santo, there existed, among the people, what was unknown to the Hebrews, an extreme anxiety about the posthumous fortunes and possible punishment of the individual soul.