“Some say that Totila was one person and Attila another; and some say that he was one and the same man.”

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Dante does not mention the name of this suicide; Boccaccio thinks, for one of two reasons:⁠—

“either out of regard to his surviving relatives, who peradventure are honorable men, and therefore he did not wish to stain them with the infamy of so dishonest a death, or else (as in those times, as if by a malediction sent by God upon our city, many hanged themselves) that each one might apply it to either he pleased of these many.”