[14] Canto xxxv. 4-9.
[15] Canto xiv. 68-73.
[16] Canto xxvii. 37.
[17] Canto xxxviii. 30, 33, 26.
[18] Canto x. 72; ix. 68; xxii. 16; xlv. 65; xiii. 36.
[19] Canto xx. 122.
[20] Canto xxvii.
[21] Ibid. 101.
[22] The comparison of Ariosto and Euripides is not wholly fanciful. Both were supreme artists in an age of incipient decadence, lacking the convictions of their predecessors, and depending for effect upon rhetorical devices. Both were τραγικώτατοι in Aristotle's sense of the phrase, and both were romantic rather than heroic poets.
[23] Canto x. 84.