[Footnote 3: The green lion of the Ordelaffi of Forli.]
[Footnote 4: Malatesta and Malatestino, lords of Rimini, deriving from
Verrucchio, a castle in the hills.]
[Footnote 5: The Malatesta were Guelfs, Montagna de' Parcitati, whom they murdered, was the leader of the Ghibelline party in Rimini.]
[Footnote 6: Faenza.]
[Footnote 7: Imola.]
[Footnote 8: Maghinardo Pagano, whose arms were a blue lion in a white field.]
[Footnote 9: Cesena.]
All Romagna with its untamable fierceness and confusion lies in these lines which, as Dante wrote them, seem as unalterable as those in which the creation of the world is described.
Nor is Dante forgetful of the great destiny that had been Ravenna's.
In the sixth canto of the Paradiso it is Justinian himself, "Cesare
fui e son Giustiniano" who recounts to Dante the victories of the
Roman eagle:
"When from Ravenna it came forth and leap'd
The Rubicon,"