• Dante makes a Centaur of Cacus, and separates him from the others because he was fraudulent as well as violent. Virgil calls him only a monster, a half-man, Semihominis Caci facies . ↩
• Agnello Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, and Puccio Sciancato. ↩
• The story of Cacus, which Virgil was telling. ↩
• Cianfa Donati, a Florentine nobleman. He appears immediately, as a serpent with six feet, and fastens upon Agnello Brunelleschi. ↩
• Some commentators contend that in this line papiro does not mean paper, but a lamp-wick made of papyrus. This destroys the beauty and aptness of the image, and rather degrades “The leaf of the reed, Which has grown through the clefts in the ruins of ages.” ↩
• These four lists, or hands, are the fore feet of the serpent and the arms of Agnello. ↩