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John's Day, viewing the ladies on either side of the way where the mantle is run for, the prelate espied a young lady, of whom this present pestilence hath bereft us and whom all you ladies must have known, Madam Nonna de' Pulci by name, cousin to Messer Alessio Rinucci, a fresh and fair young woman, both well-spoken and high-spirited, then not long before married in Porta San Piero, and pointed her out to the marshal; then, being near her, he laid his hand on the latter's shoulder and said to her, 'Nonna, how deemest thou of this gallant?
Why wasn't it finished, and why must he go on climbing again and again that frightful scaffolding? "Nonna, Nonna, you must look, I can stand it no longer," she cried one day after she had been regarding the glass for a long time. "Hold me he is going to jump. Nonna, is he safe? I can no longer see." And the glass shook in her hand.
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