Himself dispeired eke for hunger starf. Thus ended is this mighty Erl of Pise: From high estat fortune away him carf. Of this tragedie it ought ynough suffice; Who so wol here it in a longer wise, Redeth the grete poete of Itaille, That highte Dante, for he can it devise Fro point to point, not o word wol he faille.”

Buti, Commento says:⁠—

“After eight days they were removed from prison and carried wrapped in matting to the church of the Minor Friars at San Francesco, and buried in the monument, which is on the side of the steps leading into the church near the gate of the cloister, with irons on their legs, which irons I myself saw taken out of the monument.”

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