• In this canto the subject of the preceding is continued, namely, the punishment of Avarice and Prodigality. ↩
• To please the speaker. Pope Adrian the Fifth, (who, Canto XIX 139, says, “Now go, no longer will I have thee linger,”) Dante departs without further question, though not yet satisfied. ↩
• See the article “Cabala” at the end of Vol. III . ↩
• This is generally supposed to refer to Can Grande della Scala. See note 22 . ↩
• The inn at Bethlehem. ↩
• The Roman Consul who rejected with disdain the bribes of Pyrrhus, and died so poor that he was buried at the public expense, and the Romans were obliged to give a dowry to his daughters. Virgil, Aeneid , VI 844, calls him “powerful in poverty.” Dante also extols him in the Convito , IV 5. ↩
• Gower, Confessio Amantis , V 13:⁠— “Betwene the two extremites Of vice stont the propertes Of vertue, and to prove it so Take avarice and take also The vice of prodegalite, Betwene hem liberalite, Which is the vertue of largesse Stant and governeth his noblesse.” ↩