• The Tenth and last “cloister of Malebolge,” where “Justice infallible Punishes forgers,” and falsifiers of all kinds. This Canto is devoted to the alchemists. ↩
• Geri del Bello was a disreputable member of the Alighieri family, and was murdered by one of the Sacchetti. His death was afterwards avenged by his brother, who in turn slew one of the Sacchetti at the door of his house. ↩
• Bertrand de Born. ↩
• Like the ghost of Ajax in the Odyssey , XI :⁠— “He answered me not at all, but went to Erebus amongst the other souls of the dead.” ↩