Add to the “one thousand and two hundred sixtysix years,” the thirty-four of Christ’s life on earth, and it gives the vear 1300, the date of the Infernal Pilgrimage. ↩

Broken by the earthquake at the time of the Crucifixion, as the rock leading to the Circle of the Violent, Canto XII 45:⁠—

“And at that moment this primeval rock

Both here and elsewhere made such overthrow.”

“And at that moment this primeval rock Both here and elsewhere made such overthrow.”