v. 63.  Mascheroni.] Sassol Mascheroni, a Florentiue, who also murdered his uncle.

v. 66.  Camiccione.] Camiccione de’ Pazzi of Valdarno, by whom his kinsman Ubertino was treacherously pnt to death.

v. 67.  Carlino.] One of the same family.  He betrayed the Castel di Piano Travigne, in Valdarno, to the Florentines, after the refugees of the Bianca and Ghibelline party had defended it against a siege for twenty-nine days, in the summer of 1302.  See G. Villani, l. viii. c. 52 and Dino Compagni, l. ii.

v. 81.  Montaperto.] The defeat of the Guelfi at Montaperto, occasioned by the treachery of Bocca degli Abbati, who, during the engagement, cut off the hand of Giacopo del Vacca de’Pazzi, bearer of the Florentine standard.  G. Villani, l. vi. c. 80, and Notes to Canto X. This event happened in 1260.

v. 113.  Him of Duera.] Buoso of Cremona, of the family of Duera, who was bribed by Guy de Montfort, to leave a pass between Piedmont and Parma, with the defence of which he had been entrusted by the Ghibellines, open to the army of Charles of Anjou, A.D. 1265, at which the people of Cremona were so enraged, that they extirpated the whole family.  G. Villani, l. vii. c. 4.

v. 118.  Beccaria.] Abbot of Vallombrosa, who was the Pope’s Legate at Florence, where his intrigues in favour of the Ghibellines being discovered, he was beheaded.  I do not find the occurrence in Vallini, nor do the commentators say to what pope he was legate.  By Landino he is reported to have been from Parma, by Vellutello from Pavia.

v. 118.  Soldanieri.] “Gianni Soldanieri,” says Villani, Hist. l. vii. c14, “put himself at the head of the people, in the hopes of rising into power, not aware that the result would be mischief to the Ghibelline party, and his own ruin; an event which seems ever to have befallen him, who has headed the populace in Florence.”  A.D. 1266.

v. 119.  Ganellon.] The betrayer of Charlemain, mentioned by
Archbishop Turpin.  He is a common instance of treachery with the
poets of the middle ages. 
        Trop son fol e mal pensant,
        Pis valent que Guenelon. 
               Thibaut, roi de Navarre
        O new Scariot, and new Ganilion,
        O false dissembler, &c. 
               Chaucer, Nonne’s Prieste’s Tale
And in the Monke’s Tale, Peter of Spaine.
v. 119.  Tribaldello.] Tribaldello de’Manfredi, who was bribed
to betray the city of Faonza, A. D. 1282.  G. Villani, l. vii. c.
80

v. 128.  Tydeus.] See Statius, Theb. l. viii. ad finem.

Canto xxxiii.