• The Muses; the poetic tradition being that Amphion built the walls of Thebes by the sound of his lyre; and the prosaic interpretation, that he did it by his persuasive eloquence. ↩
• Matthew 26:24:⁠— “Woeunto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.” ↩
• Tambernich is a mountain of Sclavonia, and Pietrapana another near Lucca. ↩
• These two “miserable brothers” are Alessandro and Napoleone, sons of Alberto degli Alberti, lord of Falterona in the valley of the Bisenzio. After their father’s death they quarrelied, and one treacherously slew the other. ↩
• Caina is the first of the four divisions of this Circle, and takes its name from the first fratricide. ↩