NOTES TO BEPPO. NOTE I. Like the lost Pleiad seen no more below. Stanza xiv. line last. Quæ septem dici sex tamen esse solent."―OVID. NOTE 2. His name Giuseppe, call'd more briefly, Beppo. Stanza xxv. line last. Beppo is the Joe of the Italian Joseph. 66 NOTE 3. The Spaniards call the person a "Cortejo." Stanza xxxvii. line 3. Cortejo" is pronounced "Corteho," with an aspirate, according to the Arabesque guttural. It means what there is as yet no precise name for in England, though the practice is as common as in any tramontane country whatever. NOTE 4. Raphael, who died in thy embrace, and vies. Stanza xlvi. line 3. For the received accounts of the cause of Raphael's death, see his Lives. |