[12] Alexander IV. issued letters for this crusade in 1255. It was preached next year by the Archbishop of Ravenna.
[13] J. A. Symonds, Age of the Despots. London, Smith, Elder & Co., 1898, ch. iii., p. 83, &c.
“Tenne ambo le chiavi
Del cuor di Federigo.”—Inf. xiii. 58-59.
[15] “Tiranni Che diér nel Sangue e nell’ aver di piglio.”—Inf. xii. 104-105
[16] I am aware that I am destroying a legend that has found its way into nearly every guide-book and even into some histories of Verona by this assertion. But no Veronese of any culture or learning supports the popular tradition, or admits that the deed aroused such horror in the public mind as to brand the spot with a special name. The “Volto Barbaro” simply took its name from the Barbaro family who lived there, as the “Volto Marioni” in another part of the town did from the Marioni family—a fact that no one versed in Veronese matters would ever seek to gainsay or dispute.
[17] Giuseppe Biadego, Dante e gli Scaligeri, Venezia, 1899.
[18] See Cipolla, op. cit. p. 208.
“Thine earliest refuge and thine earliest inn
Shall be the mighty Lombard’s courtesy,
Who on the ladder bears the holy bird,
Who such benign regard shall have for thee
That ’twixt you twain, in doing and in asking,
That shall be first which is with others last.
With him shalt thou see one who at his birth
Has by this star of strength been so impressed,
That notable shall his achievements be.”
Paradiso, canto xvii., 76, &c.
(Longfellow’s Translation).