• Cavalcante de’ Cavalcanti, father of Dante’s friend, Guido Cavalcanti. He was of the Guelf party; so that here are Guelf and Ghibelline buried in the same tomb. ↩
• This question recalls the scene in the Odyssey , where the shade of Agamemnon appears to Ulysses and asks for Orestes. Book XI in Chapman’s translation, line 603:⁠— “Doth my son yet survive In Orchomen or Pylos? Or doth live In Sparta with his uncle? Yet I see Divine Orestes is not here with me.” ↩

• Guido Cavalcanti, whom Benvenuto da Imola calls “the other eye of Florence,”⁠— alter oculus Florentiae tempore Dantis . It is to this Guido that Dante addresses the sonnet, which is like the breath of Spring, beginning:⁠— “Guido, I wish that Lapo, thou, and I Could be by spells conveyed, as it were now, Upon a barque, with all the winds that blow, Across all seas at our good will to hie.” He was a poet of decided mark, as may be seen by his “Song of Fortune,” quoted in note 107 , and the Sonnet to Dante, note 1125 . But he seems not to have shared Dante’s admiration for Virgil, and to have been more given to the study of philosophy than of poetry.