The Banquet 65 



The details of the banquet are described by Corio, the Annals 

 of Milan, the Chronicle of Montferrat, and the Fragment 

 (besides AHprando; see p. 63, note 21). These four accounts 

 are in substantial agreement, but vary in particulars. Where 

 they differ, I have endeavored to harmonize them as best I could, 

 and have generally effected a condensation. Here and there I 

 have been unable to translate a word, and in other cases have 

 not been quite certain of the rendering. It will be observed that 

 presents were offered to the guests with each course. 



to Modena, June 15-21; from Modena to Milan, June 26-July 3), a 

 thousand persons sat down (Giulini 4. 801). At this earlier feast, open 

 house was kept at the Broletto for eight days ; great numbers of actors, 

 jugglers, and buffoons were present; and every one of the thousand guests 

 at the banquet received a suit of raiment (Giulini 4. 801). Moreover, in 

 the year 1277, the greater part of the population of Milan stood in arms 

 at one time within the enclosure (Giulini 4. 636) ; in 1355 there were 

 16,000 armed men in Milan (Mezieres, p. 279), but the population may 

 well have increased in the interval between 1277 and that year. There 

 would therefore have been room for many spectators at the wedding- 

 banquet of Lionel and Violante. 



Regina (b. ca. 1336 or 1337), whom we have mentioned above, seems 

 to have gained this name on account of her regal bearing (Leo 3. 296, 

 note 2; 325, note i), her Christian name being properly Beatrice (but 

 Giulini, 5. 645-6, says Caterina, and is supported by R. I. S. 15. 503). 

 She was the daughter of Mastino II of Verona (d. 1351), whose eques- 

 trian statue under a canopy, near the Piazza dei Signori, attracts the 

 eye of every traveler at Verona. She was married to Bernabo in Septem- 

 ber, 1350, at a tender age {M. H. P., p. 1180), and died June 18, 1384, 

 after having borne him 15 children (Corio, p. 509), her last son, Mastino, 

 having apparently been born in 1375 (R. I. S. 17. 499; Muratori 8. 415; 

 otherwise Giulini 5. 651). Her epitaph in verse may be read in Corio (p. 

 504) and Anna!. Med. (R. I. S. 16. 778), where she is called Regina 

 Beatrix. Her tomb is still to be seen in the Archaeological Museum of 

 the Castle of Milan, while in the adjoining room is that of her husband, 

 Bernabo, originally erected (1370), 15 years before his death, in S. Giovanni 

 in Conca (PL 52), whence it was removed (1814) to the church of Brera 

 (Rosmini 2. 157, note 2). The latter tomb has a life-size marble eques- 

 trian statue of Bernabo (see R. I. S. 16. 544-5, 800, 854; Corio, p. 509), 

 accompanied by Fortitude and Justice (see the picture opposite) ; it is 

 to be compared rather with the nearly contemporary one of Can Signorio 

 (cf. Venturi, p. 590) at Verona than with the bronze statues of 

 Gattamelata (1447) at Padua, and CoUeoni (1481) at Venice. Regina built 

 (1381), perhaps with 400,000 golden florins received from the della Scalas 

 in 1379, the church (R. I. S. 16. 777) of Santa Maria della Scala (sup- 



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