• Deuteronomy 18:2:⁠— “Therefore shall they have no inheritance among their brethren: the Lord is their inheritance, as he hath said unto them.” ↩
• “This Gherardo,” says Buti, “had a daughter, called, on account of her beauty, Gaja; and so modest and virtuous was she, that through all Italy was spread the fame of her beauty and modesty.” The Ottimo , who preceded Buti in point of time, gives a somewhat different and more equivocal account. He says:⁠— “Madonna Gaia was the daughter of Messer Gherardo da Camino: she was a lady of such conduct in amorous delectations, that her name was notorious throughout all Italy; and therefore she is thus spoken of here.” ↩
• The trance and vision of Dante, and the ascent to the Fourth Circle, where the sin of Sloth is punished. ↩
• Iliad , III 10:⁠— “As the south wind spreads a mist upon the brow of a mountain, by no means agreeable to the shepherd, but to the robber better than night, in which a man sees only as far as he can cast a stone.” ↩