[535] V. N. xliii. 1-11.
[536] Exactly at midday, moreover, according to one system then in vogue, though it seems to have been more usual to begin the day at sunrise.
[537] “A thousand two hundred and one, added to sixty-six.”
[538] “Midway in the journey of our life.”
[539] “The highest point,” the “summit.”
[540] “Until the summit of my life.” Conv. I. iii. 24, 25.
[541] “Youth.”
[542] “Is in truth the summit of our life.”
[543] Farinata alludes to the two Guelf banishments of 1248 and 1260. Inf. x. 42-50.
[544] Conv. I. iii. 22-24; Inf. xxiii. 94, 95, etc.