• In the Fourth Bolgia are punished the Soothsayers:⁠— “Because they wished to see too far before them, Backward they look, and backward make their way.” ↩
• Processions chanting prayers and supplications. ↩
• Ignaro in Spenser’s Faerie Queene , I viii 31:⁠— “But very uncouth sight was to behold How he did fashion his untoward pace; For as he forward moved his footing old, So backward still was turned his wrinkled face.” ↩