• The Corsa del Pallio , or foot races, at Verona; in which a green mantle, or Pallio , was the prize. Buttura says that these footraces are still continued (1823), and that he has seen them more than once; but certainly not in the nude state in which Boccaccio describes them, and which renders Dante’s comparison more complete and striking. ↩
• In this Canto the subject of the preceding is continued. ↩
• Guidoguerra, Tegghiajo Aldobrandi, and Jacopo Rusticucci. ↩