Orlando’s horn is one of the favorite fictions of old romance, and is surpassed in power only by that of Alexander, which took sixty men to blow it and could be heard at a distance of sixty miles! ↩

Montereggione is a picturesque old castle on an eminence near Siena. Ampère, Voyage Dantesque , 251, remarks:⁠—

“This fortress, as the commentators say, was furnished with towers all round about, and had none in the centre. In its present state it is still very faithfully described by the verse,

‘Montereggion di torri si corona.’ ”