Peter’s and those coming from the church, passing on opposite sides, might not interfere with each other. It seems not unlikely that Dante himself was one of the crowd who thus crossed the old bridge, over whose arches, during this year, a flood of men was flowing almost as constantly as the river’s flood ran through below.”

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The castle is the Castle of St. Angelo, and the mountain Monte Gianicolo. See Barlow, Study of Dante , p. 126. Others say Monte Giordano. ↩

“This Caccianimico,” says Benvenuto da Imola, “was a Bolognese; a liberal, noble, pleasant, and very powerful man.”