v. 127. Costanza.] Widow of Peter III She has been already mentioned in the third Canto, v. 112. By Beatrice and Margaret are probably meant two of the daughters of Raymond Berenger, Count of Provence; the former married to St. Louis of France, the latter to his brother Charles of Anjou. See Paradise, Canto Vl. 135. Dante therefore considers Peter as the most illustrious of the three monarchs. v. 129. Harry of England.] Henry III. v. 130. Better issue.] Edward l. of whose glory our Poet was perhaps a witness, in his visit to England. v. 133. William, that brave Marquis.] William, Marquis of Monferrat, was treacherously seized by his own subjects, at Alessandria, in Lombardy, A.D. 1290, and ended his life in prison. See G. Villani, 1. vii. c. 135. A war ensued between the people of Alessandria and those of Monferrat and the Canavese. CANTO VIII v. 6. That seems to mourn for the expiring day.] The curfew tolls the knell of parting day. Gray’s Elegy. v. 13. Te Lucis Ante.] The beginning of one of the evening hymns. v. 36. As faculty.] My earthly by his heav’nly overpower’d * * * * As with an object, that excels the sense, Dazzled and spent. Milton, P. L. b. viii. 457. v. 53. Nino, thou courteous judge.] Nino di Gallura de’ Visconti nephew to Count Ugolino de’ Gherardeschi, and betrayed by him. See Notes to Hell Canto XXXIII. v. 65. Conrad.] Currado Malaspina. v. 71 My Giovanna.] The daughter of Nino, and wife of Riccardo da Cammino of Trevigi. v. 73. Her mother.] Beatrice, marchioness of Este wife of Nino, and after his death married to Galeazzo de’ Visconti of Milan. v. 74. The white and wimpled folds.] The weeds of widowhood. v. 80. The viper.] The arms of Galeazzo and the ensign of the Milanese. v. 81. Shrill Gallura’s bird.] The cock was the ensign of Gallura, Nino’s province in Sardinia. Hell, Canto XXII. 80. and Notes. v. 115. Valdimagra.] See Hell, Canto XXIV. 144. and Notes. v. 133. Sev’n times the tired sun.] “The sun shall not enter into the constellation of Aries seven times more, before thou shalt have still better cause for the good opinion thou expresses” of Valdimagra, in the kind reception thou shalt there meet with.” Dante was hospitably received by the Marchese Marcello Malaspina, during his banishment. A.D. 1307. CANTO IX v. 1. Now the fair consort of Tithonus old.] La concubina di Titone antico. So Tassoni, Secchia Rapita, c. viii. st. 15. La puttanella del canuto amante. v. 5. Of that chill animal.] The scorpion. v. 14. Our minds.] Compare Hell, Canto XXVI. 7. v. 18. A golden-feathered eagle. ] Chaucer, in the house of Fame at the conclusion of the first book and beginning of the second, represents himself carried up by the “grim pawes” of a golden eagle. Much of his description is closely imitated from Dante. v. 50. Lucia.] The enIightening, grace of heaven Hell, Canto II. 97.