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  • By the aid of Charles of Valois the Neri party triumphed in Florence, and the Bianchi were banished, and with them Dante. ↩
  • There is an allusion here to the nickname of Charles of Valois, Senzaterra, or Lackland. ↩
  • Charles the Second, son of Charles of Anjou. He went from France to recover Sicily after the Sicilian Vespers. In an engagement with the Spanish fleet under Admiral Rugieri d’ Oria, he was taken prisoner. Dante says he sold his daughter, because he married her for a large sum of money to Azzo the Sixth of Este. ↩
  • Aeneid , III 56. “Cursed thirst of gold, to what dost thou not drive the hearts of men.” ↩
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