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Fig-tree, story about a man who begged a branch from his neighbour’s, 149

Filiberta of Savoy, 320, 346

Filiberto, Duke of Savoy, 396

Filippello’s wife, a character in Boccaccio, 164, 165, 166

Filippo, Duke,—see Visconti, Filippo Maria

Finger-rings, story of Alfonso I’s, 146

Firmianus, Lactantius, “the Christian Cicero,” 392

First impression: amusing story illustrating the importance of, 111-2; the courtier to try to make a good, 113

Five nuns and the friar, story of the, 136-7

Flogged, story of man condemned to be, 129

Florence, 39, 43, 44, 140, 151

Florence, the Archbishop of, (Roberto Folco), 142, 372

Florentine Council, humourous sally made in the, 149-50

Florentine territory, story of a soldier who had fled from, 147

Florentines, wont to wear the hood, 104

Florido, Orazio, 71, 352

Foglietta, Agostino, 145, 374-5

Foglino, Scarmiglione da, 377

Foix, Gaston de, 379

Folco, Roberto, Archbishop of Florence, 142, 372

Forden, Katherine, 316

Foreign phrases, instances of allowable use of, 46

Forged document of renunciation, story of a, 151

Forli, Antonello da,—see Antonello da Forli

Fornovo, the battle of, 360

Fortebracci, Braccio, 384

Fra Mariano Fetti, 16, 122, 162, 335

France, 31, 57, 97, 114

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