Towns in Romagna. “Bagnacavallo, and Castrocaro, and Conio,” says the Ottimo , “were all habitations of courtesy and honor. Now in Bagnacavallo the Counts are extinct; and he (Dante) says it does well to produce no more of them because they had degenerated like those of Conio and Castrocaro. ↩

The Pagani were Lords of Faenza and Imola. The head of the family, Mainardo, was surnamed “the Devil.”⁠—See note 403 . His bad repute will always be a reproach to the family. ↩

A nobleman of Faenza, who died without heirs, and thus his name was safe. ↩

Milton, Comus :⁠—