* This settlement, the “Fuggerei,” still exists. It charges forty-two pfennigs (eighty-six cents) per family per year.

* For other dubious interpretations cf. Panofsky, Dürer, I, 156–71.

* Out animal ancestors seem to have been vegetarians when they could not get lice; but our human ancestors were apparently hunters, and therefore meat-eaters, for 50,000 years before the discovery of agriculture. Dietetic arguments from history are treacherous.

* An expectancy was a promise of appointment to a benefice in anticipation of the incumbent’s death or removal. The postponement of appointments was often due to the rule that between the death of one bishop and the selection of his successor the revenues of the see went to the Roman Curia.