• Constance, wife of the Emperor Henry the Sixth. ↩
• His daughter Constance, who was married to Peter of Aragon, and was the mother of Frederic of Sicily and of James of Aragon. ↩
• The Bishop of Cosenza and Pope Clement the Fourth. ↩
• The name of the river Verde reminds one of the old Spanish ballad, particularly when one recalls the fact that Manfredi had in his army a band of Saracens:⁠— “Rio Verde, Rio Verde, Many a corpse is bathed in thee, Both of Moors and eke of Christians, Slain with swords most cruelly.” ↩
• Those who died “in contumely of holy Church,” or under excommunication, were buried with extinguished and inverted torches. ↩
• Plato’s doctrine of three souls: the Vegetative in the liver; the Sensative in the heart; and the Intellectual in the brain. See Convito , IV 7. ↩
• See Convito , II 14, quoted note 1566 . ↩
• Sanleo, a fortress on a mountain in the duchy of Urbino; Noli, a town in the Genoese territory, by the seaside; Bismantova, a mountain in the duchy of Modena. ↩