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They were kept by the king's and the treasurer's remembrancer, and are illustrated in print by extracts from the Memoranda Rolls, 1297, in Transactions of the Royal Hist. From the Exchequer records come also the following: Testa de Neville sive Liber Feodorum temp. Hen. ZZZ. et Edw. II., published in PALGRAVE'S Parl.
We arrived early next day at Kom, where I was forced to stop, all my attendants being seized in a similar manner with myself, except our priest Stephen Testa, who took care of us all. Our fever was so malignant that we were all delirious during the height of the access or hot fit.
I longed to explain, but did not find words at the moment, and we went on with our lesson. The fact was that Testa had not the least sense of humor in his composition, and so he could not understand what had happened.
The skeleton of a bird was nailed up against a barn, and I said to a man: "Aquila?" He replied: "Aquila," and I passed on. The village boys came round me and sighed while they watched me sketching. And the women came and exclaimed: "Oh! che testa, che testa!"
Dice lui, pero! Mezzo. Farabutto! Mortacci sui! Ma ascolta! Cinque la testa piu...
I left Venice on the 23d of February, in the year 1473, accompanied by the venerable priest Stephen Testa, who acted as my chaplain and secretary, and by Demetrius de Seze, my interpreter, together with two servants, Maffei de Bergamo, and John Ungaretti, all of us disguised in ordinary German dresses, our money being concealed in the clothes of Stephen Testa.
Here follows the thirty-seventh division in which the question is asked whether it is fitting that the clergy be made acquainted with profane literature, that is, the books of the heathen. The first two chapters are plain. So Jerome to Pope Damasus on the prodigal son: =Priests are blameworthy who, to the neglect of the Gospels, read comedies.= C. de testa consulta divalia.
Then the fishing in the beck for trout as a boy, and the call of the sounding 'forces. Then the huntings afoot on the high fells, and the reckless gallops on the haughs below. No wonder he loved it, for he and his forefathers were part and parcel of the land. They had been there and owned it since the days of the Testa de Nevil. He was 'hefted' to it, as the farmers said of their stock.
Here he met Gaspare coming up from the sea. "Good-evening, Gaspare," he said. "Good-evening, Signore." "I hear there's a new-comer in the house." "Signore?" "A new servant." Gaspare lifted his large eyes towards heaven. "Testa della Madonna?" said Artois. "Signore?" "Have a cigar, Gaspare?" "Grazie, Signore." "Is she a good sort of girl, do you think?" "Who, Signore?" "This Peppina."
The palace is encircled with a charming little garden, a bit of colour and greenery squeezed in, as it were, between cliff and fortress, from which one looks down over precipices of red rock with the prickly pear clinging to their clefts and ledges, or across a rift of sea to the huge bare front of the Testa del Cane with gigantic euphorbias, cactus, and orange-gardens fringing its base.
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