116
XXXI. Borsieri and Grimaldi 119
XXXII. Alberto of Bologna 122
XXXIII. Rinaldo of Este 125
XXXIV. King of England's Daughter 130
XXXV. Randolpho Ruffolo 138
XXXVI. Andruccio 143
XXXVII. Earl of Angiers 156
XXXVIII. Giletta of Narbonne 171
XXXIX. Tancred and Gismonda 180
XL. Mahomet and Irene 190
XLI. Lady Falsely Accused 198
XLII. Didaco and Violenta 218
XLIII. Lady of Turin 240
XLIV. Aleran and Adelasia 249
XLV. Duchess of Savoy 285
XLVI. Countess of Salisbury 334
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[Transcriber's Note on editors' introductions:

Bracketed text [ ] is in the original. Brackets are also used to
demarcate footnotes.
In citations of older texts, letters originally printed as
superscripts are shown in braces { }.

For complete notes and errata, see the end of the text.]

PREFACE.

The present edition of Painter's "Palace of Pleasure," the storehouse of
Elizabethan plot, follows page for page and line for line the privately
printed and very limited edition made by Joseph Haslewood in 1813. One
of the 172 copies then printed by him has been used as "copy" for the
printer, but this has been revised in proof from the British Museum
examples of the second edition of 1575. The collation has for the most
part only served to confirm Haslewood's reputation for careful editing.
Though the present edition can claim to come nearer the original in many
thousands of passages, it is chiefly in the mint and cummin of capitals
and italics that we have been able to improve on Haslewood: in all the
weightier matters of editing he shows only the minimum of fallibility.
We have however divided his two tomes, for greater convenience, into
three volumes of as nearly as possible equal size. This arrangement has
enabled us to give the title pages of both editions of the two tomes,
those of the first edition in facsimile, those of the second (at the
beginning of vols. ii. and iii.) wi