[1]Statius; more slowly, for the sake of remaining with Virgil.
[2] The sister of Forese, whom Dante meets in Paradise (Canto III.).
[3] Recognition by the looks being thus impossible.
[4] Bonagiunta Urbiciani; he lived and wrote in the last half of the thirteenth century.
[5] Martin IV., Pope from 1281 to 1284.
[6] Archbishop of Ravenna.
[7] Upon his lips.
[8] Of a married woman.
[9] This honorable and delightful reference to the otherwise unknown maiden, Gentucca of Lucca, has given occasion to much worthless and base comment. Dante was at Lucca during his exile, in 1314. He himself was one of those who blamed the city; see Hell, Canto XXI.
[10] The first verse of the first canzone of The New Life.