“The body of the Prince,” says Barlow, Study of Dante , p. 125, “was brought to England, and interred at Hayles, in Gloucestershire, in the Abbey which his father had there built for monks of the Cistercian order; but his heart was put into a golden vase, and placed on the tomb of Edward the Confessor, in Westminster Abbey; most probably, as stated by some writers, in the hands of a statue.” ↩

Violence in all its forms was common enough in Florence in the age of Dante. ↩

Attila, the Scourge of God. Gibbon, Decline and Fall , Chap. 39, describes him thus:⁠—