This is generally supposed to refer to Can Grande della Scala. See note 22 . ↩

The inn at Bethlehem. ↩

The Roman Consul who rejected with disdain the bribes of Pyrrhus, and died so poor that he was buried at the public expense, and the Romans were obliged to give a dowry to his daughters. Virgil, Aeneid , VI 844, calls him “powerful in poverty.” Dante also extols him in the Convito , IV 5. ↩