—Dante: Inferno, Canto ii.
"And as the harbinger of early dawn,
The air of May doth move and breathe out fragrance,
Impregnate all with herbage and with flowers."
—Dante: Purgatorio, Canto xxiv.
[10] Dante, Inferno, canto v.
[11] Dante, Paradiso, canto 5.
[12] Vita Nuova, 39.
[13] Old-fashioned one-horse carriage.
[14] Dante, Paradiso, Canto ii.
[15] Poor Visconti is not buried in the Church of San Bartolommeo all'Isola. My friend Majoli tells me that I have made a mistake. His body was taken there, as it was found near there, and the funeral took place in that church; but the body was taken afterwards to the Campo Verano, and buried in the lower part of that cemetery. A modest little monument called a Pincietto was erected over it by the subscription of several sorrowing and affectionate friends, and amongst these the good Majoli, who most particularly exerted himself in modelling and cutting a portrait of him in marble, and offering his work as a tribute of friendship.