“There is no doubt that these heads and the horns represent the same that we have said in Canto XIX of the Inferno ; namely, the ten horns, the Ten Commandments of God; and the seven heads, the Seven Sacraments of the Church.”

Never was there a wider difference of interpretation. The context certainly favors the first. ↩

Pope Boniface the Eighth. ↩

Philip the Fourth of France. For his character see note 908 . ↩