[36] Il Purgatorio, p. 58.

[37] Par. xxxi. 85-89.

[38] Inf. i. 31-34.

[39] Loc. cit.

[40] Italy is likened by Dante to a wood (silva) in V.E., I, xi.

[41] Purg. vi. 76-fin.

[42] Purg. vi. 91 sqq.; Mon. I, xii.

[43] Purg. v. 61.

[44] See Mon. II, v. 132 sqq.; 159 sqq., quoted below; pp. 355 sq., Oxf. Ed.; p. 379, Bemporad.

[45] Inf. xii. 1-21.