• Towns in Romagna. “Bagnacavallo, and Castrocaro, and Conio,” says the Ottimo , “were all habitations of courtesy and honor. Now in Bagnacavallo the Counts are extinct; and he (Dante) says it does well to produce no more of them because they had degenerated like those of Conio and Castrocaro. ↩
• The Pagani were Lords of Faenza and Imola. The head of the family, Mainardo, was surnamed “the Devil.”⁠—See note 403 . His bad repute will always be a reproach to the family. ↩
• A nobleman of Faenza, who died without heirs, and thus his name was safe. ↩
• Milton, Comus :⁠— “Of calling shapes and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men’s names.” These voices in the air proclaim examples of envy. ↩
• Genesis 4:13, 14:⁠— “And Cain said unto the Lord,⁠ ⁠… Every one that findeth me shall slay me.” ↩