St. Thomas Aquinas, who had related the life of St. Francis. ↩

The first doubt in Dante’s mind was in regard to the expression in Canto X 96,

“Where well one fattens if he strayeth not,”

“Where well one fattens if he strayeth not,”

which was explained by Thomas Aquinas in Canto XI . The second, which he now prepares to thresh out, is in Canto X 114,