. Annals of medical history. Orso. This building, one of thefew remaining medieval houses of theplainer sort, was still standing in dated from the year 1300 but there isno ground for the popular belief that ithad been patronized by Dante. In a dayor two he removed to lodgings in the Viadi Monte Brianza. It is the scribe whoregrets they did not go to the GoldenBowl instead, where they could haveenjoyed regal surroundings for the sameprice. Montaigne avoided it just because ofthe furnishings of silk and cloth of gives some interesting dataabout Roman hostelries. They cen
. Annals of medical history. Orso. This building, one of thefew remaining medieval houses of theplainer sort, was still standing in dated from the year 1300 but there isno ground for the popular belief that ithad been patronized by Dante. In a dayor two he removed to lodgings in the Viadi Monte Brianza. It is the scribe whoregrets they did not go to the GoldenBowl instead, where they could haveenjoyed regal surroundings for the sameprice. Montaigne avoided it just because ofthe furnishings of silk and cloth of gives some interesting dataabout Roman hostelries. They centeredmainly around the Campo di Fiori where thewindows were a\ailablc for witnessing the|)nl)hc executions wliJcli look place went to see tlie execution of a noted malefactor and in this connectionmentions the practice in vogue of revivingpeople who had been tortured by applyingthe warm bodies of fowls just killed to fleshtorn with pincers, or to the stumps of muti-lated limbs. He telLs how a few years before,. some of the numerous Spanish or Portu-guese residents in the city had associatedthemselves together for indulgence in cer-tain immoral practices and that nine or tenof them were detected and sent to the of the popular inns, the Cow, hadbelonged to Vanozza deCattanei, mistressof Pope Alexander vi. She also owned theLion very near Montaignes inn. TheBear was hard by the Piazza Fiammettawhere Caesar Borgias mistress had had herabode, and near the church where she wasburied as an honesta mulier. Wc cannotascribe to the jaundiced eye of a sick man(during his two stays in the Eternal CityMontaigne passed six or seven calculi andconsiderable graxel and had inimerous at- Montaigne and Medicine 329 tacks of colic) the conuncnts on the insig-nificant character of the Roman streets forthey retained it down to our own day. TheBear was on the left bank of the Tiberand behind it was a congerie of narrow,unlit, ill-smelling streets worse than those ofParis befo
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