v. 58. What master of the pencil or the style.] —inimitable on earth By model, or by shading pencil drawn. Milton, P. L. b. iii. 509. v. 94. The chapel stands.] The church of San Miniato in Florence situated on a height that overlooks the Arno, where it is crossed by the bridge Rubaconte, so called from Messer Rubaconte da Mandelia, of Milan chief magistrate of Florence, by whom the bridge was founded in 1237. See G. Villani, 1. vi. c. 27. v. 96. The well-guided city] This is said ironically of Florence. v. 99. The registry.] In allusion to certain instances of fraud committed with respect to the public accounts and measures See Paradise Canto XVI. 103. CANTO XIII v. 26. They have no wine.] John, ii. 3. These words of the Virgin are referred to as an instance of charity. v. 29. Orestes] Alluding to his friendship with Pylades v. 32. Love ye those have wrong’d you.] Matt. c. v. 44. v. 33. The scourge.] “The chastisement of envy consists in hearing examples of the opposite virtue, charity. As a curb and restraint on this vice, you will presently hear very different sounds, those of threatening and punishment.” v. 87. Citizens Of one true city.] “For here we have no continuing city, but we seek to come.” Heb. C. xiii. 14. v. 101. Sapia.] A lady of Sienna, who, living in exile at Colle, was so overjoyed at a defeat which her countrymen sustained near that place that she declared nothing more was wanting to make her die contented. v. 114. The merlin.] The story of the merlin is that having been induced by a gleam of fine weather in the winter to escape from his master, he was soon oppressed by the rigour of the season. v. 119. The hermit Piero.] Piero Pettinagno, a holy hermit of Florence. v. 141. That vain multitude.] The Siennese. See Hell, Canto XXIX. 117. “Their acquisition of Telamone, a seaport on the confines of the Maremma, has led them to conceive hopes of becoming a naval power: but this scheme will prove as chimerical as their former plan for the discovery of a subterraneous stream under their city.” Why they gave the appellation of Diana to the imagined stream, Venturi says he leaves it to the antiquaries of Sienna to conjecture. CANTO XIV v. 34. Maim’d of Pelorus.] Virg. Aen. 1. iii. 414. —a hill Torn from Pelorus Milton P. L. b. i. 232 v. 45. ’Midst brute swine.] The people of Casentino. v. 49. Curs.] The Arno leaves Arezzo about four miles to the left. v. 53. Wolves.] The Florentines. v. 55. Foxes.] The Pisans v. 61. Thy grandson.] Fulcieri de’ Calboli, grandson of Rinieri de’ Calboli, who is here spoken to. The atrocities predicted came to pass in 1302. See G. Villani, 1. viii c. 59 v. 95. ’Twixt Po, the mount, the Reno, and the shore.] The boundaries of Romagna. v. 99. Lizio.] Lizio da Valbona, introduced into Boccaccio’s Decameron, G. v. N, 4.