And all this did he for a wonder, That whan a man for peine cride, The bull of bras, which gapeth wide, It shulde seme, as though it were A bellewing in a mannes ere And nought the crieng of a man. But he, which alle sleightes can. The devil, that lith in helle fast, Him that it cast hath overcast, That for a trespas, which he dede, He was put in the same stede. And was himself the first of alle, Which was into that peine falle That he for other men ordeigneth.” ↩

• Virgil being a Lombard, Dante suggests that, in giving Ulysses and Diomed license to depart, he had used the Lombard dialect, saying, “ Issa t’ en va. ” See note 329 . ↩
• The inhabitants of the province of Romagna, of which Ravenna is the capital. ↩
• It is the spirit of Guido da Montefeltro that speaks. The city of Montefeltro lies between Urbino and that part of the Apennines in which the Tiber rises. Count Guido was a famous warrior, and one of the great Ghibelline leaders. He tells his own story sufficiently in detail in what follows. ↩