• “The building thus appropriated,” says Mr. Barlow, Contributions to the Study of the Divine Comedy , p. 129:⁠— “would appear to have been the large ruined edifice known as the Bagno di Ser Paolo Benigno, situated between the Bulicame and Viterbo. About half a mile beyond the Porta di Faule, which leads to Toscanella, we come to a way called Riello, after which we arrive at the said ruined edifice, which received the water from the Bulicame by conduits, and has popularly been regarded as the Bagno delle Meretrici alluded to by Dante; there is no other building here found, which can dispute with it the claim to this distinction.” ↩
• The shouts and cymbals of the Corybantes, drowning the cries of the infant Jove, lest Saturn should find him and devour him. ↩
• The statue of Time, turning its back upon the East and looking towards Rome, Compare Daniel 2:31. ↩
• The Ages of Gold, Silver, Brass, and Iron. See Ovid, Metamorphoses I . See also Don Quixote’s discourse to the goatherds, inspired by the acorns they gave him. Book II Chap. 3; and Tasso’s Ode to the Golden Age, in the Aminta . ↩