See Valery, Voyages en Corse et en Sardaigne , II 410. ↩

In this Sixth Bolgia the Hypocrites are punished.

“A painted people there below we found,

Who went about with footsteps very slow,

Weeping and in their looks subdued and weary.”

“A painted people there below we found, Who went about with footsteps very slow, Weeping and in their looks subdued and weary.”

Chaucer, “Knightes Tale,” 2780:⁠—