manner. "Pollajolo" was both painter and sculptor. "Margheritone of
Arezzo" was one of the earlier Old Masters, and died, as Vasari states,
"infastidito" (deeply annoyed), by the success of Giotto and the "new
school." Hence the funeral garb in which Mr. Browning depicts him.]

[Footnote 66: The "magic" symbolized is that of genuine poetry; but the
magician, or "mage," is an historical person; and the special feat
imputed to him was recorded of other magicians in the Middle Ages, if
not of himself.

"Johannes Teutonicus, a canon of Halberstadt in Germany, after he had
performed a number of prestigious feats almost incredible, was
transported by the Devil in the likeness of a black horse, and was both
seen and heard upon one and the same Christmas day to say Mass in
Halberstadt, in Mayntz, and in Cologne" ("Heywood's Hierarchy," bk. iv.,
p. 253).

The "prestigious feat" of causing flowers to appear in winter was a
common one. "In the year 876, the Emperor Lewis then reigning, there was
one Zedechias, by religion a Jew, by profession a physician, but indeed
a magician. In the midst of winter, in the Emperor's palace, he suddenly
caused a most pleasant and delightful garden to appear, with all sorts
of trees, plants, herbs, and flowers, together with the singing of all
sorts of birds, to be seen and heard." (Delrio, "Disquisitio Magicæ,"
bk. i., chap, iv., and elsewhere; and many other authorities.)]

[Footnote 67: "Wine of Cyprus." The quotation heading the poem qualifies
it as 'wine for the superiors in age and station.']

[Footnote 68: Such as Wordsworth assumed to have been in use with