thee; therefore assist me sometimes with thy prayer. And I beseech thee, by that which thou most desirest, if ever thou tread the earth of Tuscany, that with my kindred thou restore my fame. Thou wilt see them among that vain people which hopes in Talamone,[7] and will waste more hope there, than in finding the Diana[8] but the admirals will stake the most there.[9] [1] Being purified from sin they will retain no memory of it. [2] “Fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God.”—Ephesians, ii. 19. [3] “For here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come.”—Hebrews, xiii. 14. [4] This was the battle in 1259, in which the Florentines routed die Sienese Ghibellines, at whose head was Provenzan Salvani. who was slain. See Canto XI. [5] I should not yet within Purgatory have diminished my debt of expiation, but, because I delayed repentance till the hour of Death, I should still be outside the gate. [6] A poor comb-dealer, a man of kind heart, honest dealings, and good deeds, and still remembered for them in Siena. He died in 1289. [7] A little port on the coast of Tuscany, on which the Sienese wasted toil and money in the vain hope that by strengthening and enlarging it they could make themselves rivals at sea of the Pisans and Genoese. [8] A subterranean stream supposed to flow beneath the city. [9] Of these last words the meaning is obscure. CANTO XIV. Second Ledge: the Envious—Guido del Duca.—Rinieri de’ Calboli.—Examples of the punishment of Envy.