• It was not so dark that on a near approach he could not distinguish objects indistinctly visible at a greater distance. ↩
• Nino de’ Visconti of Pisa, nephew of Count Ugolino, and Judge of Gallura in Sardinia. Dante had known him at the siege of Caprona, in 1290, where he saw the frightened garrison march out under safeguard. Inferno XXI 95. It was this “gentle Judge,” who hanged Friar Gomita for peculation, Inferno XXII 82. ↩
• His daughter, still young and innocent. ↩
• His widow married Galeazzo de’ Visconti of Milan, “and much discomfort did this woman suffer with her husband,” says the Ottimo , “so that many a time she wished herself a widow.” ↩
• Hamlet , IV 5:⁠— “His obscure funeral, No trophy, sword, or hatchment o’er his grave.” ↩
• The Visconti of Milan had for their coat of arms a viper; and being on the banner, it led the Milanese to battle. ↩