• Alberto della Scala, Lord of Verona. He made his natural son, whose qualifications for the office Dante here enumerates, and the commentators repeat. Abbot of the Monastery of San Zeno. ↩
• See note 111 . ↩
• Numbers 32:11, 12:⁠— “Surely none of the men that came out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me: save Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite, and Joshua the son of Nun; for they have wholly followed the Lord.” ↩
• The Trojans who remained with Acestes in Sicily, instead of following Aeneas to Italy. Aeneid , V :⁠— “They enroll the matrons for the city, and set on shore as many of the people as were willing⁠—souls that had no desire of high renown.” ↩
• The end of the Second Day. ↩
• The ascent to the Fifth Circle, where Avarice is punished. It is the dawn of the Third Day. ↩
• Brunetto Latini, Tresor , Ch. CXI :⁠— “Saturn, who is sovereign over all, is cruel and malign and of a cold nature.” ↩