• To dens of thieves. “And the monks’ hoods and habits are full,” says Buti, “of wicked and sinful souls, of evil thoughts and ill-will. And as from bad flour bad bread is made, so from ill-will, which is in the monks, come evil deeds.” ↩
• The usurer is not so offensive to God as the monk who squanders the revenues of the Church in his own pleasures and vices. ↩
• Psalm 114:5:⁠— “What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?” The power that wrought these miracles can also bring help to the corruptions of the Church, great as the impossibility may seem. ↩
• Paradise. “Truly,” says Buti, “the glory of Paradise may be called a triumph, for the blessed triumph in their victory over the world, the flesh, and the Devil.” ↩
• The sign that follows Taurus is the sign of the Gemini, under which Dante was born. ↩