PICCIOLA

BY

X. B. SAINTINE,

WITH MAP, INTRODUCTION AND

COMMENTARY

BY

REV. A. C. CLAPIN, M.A.

ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, AND BACHELIER-ÈS-LETTRES

OF THE UNIVERSITY OF FRANCE.

ASSISTANT MASTER AT SHERBORNE SCHOOL.

EDITED FOR THE SYNDICS OF THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Cambridge:

AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

London: C. J. CLAY, M.A. & SON,
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE,

PREFACE.

IT is intended, in publishing this edition of Saintine's Picciola as one of the Pitt Press Series of School texts, to deal in the notes with points of grammar and etymology more fully than has been done in the editions hitherto in circulation for the use of Schools.

A few liberties have been taken with Saintine's original text to adapt it for School purposes; the alterations are chiefly verbal, but in a few cases a short passage has been altogether omitted.

The sketch of Saintine's life, which is given in the Introduction, is compiled principally from Saintine's Biography by Michel Masson, his friend and brother author.