v. 127.  Marcellus.]
Un Marcel diventa
Ogni villan che parteggiando viene. 
Repeated by Alamanni in his Coltivazione, 1. i.

v. 51.  I sick wretch.] Imitated by the Cardinal de Polignac in his Anti-Lucretius, 1. i. 1052.

Ceu lectum peragrat membris languentibus aeger
In latus alterne faevum dextrumque recumbens
Nec javat:  inde oculos tollit resupinus in altum: 
Nusquam inventa quies; semper quaesita:  quod illi
Primum in deliciis fuerat, mox torquet et angit: 
Nec morburm sanat, nec fallit taedia morbi.

CANTO VII

v. 14.  Where one of mean estate might clasp his lord.] Ariosto Orl.  F. c. xxiv. st. 19

E l’abbracciaro, ove il maggior s’abbraccia
Col capo nudo e col ginocchio chino.

v. 31.  The three holy virtues.] Faith, Hope and Charity.

v. 32.  The red.] Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, and Temperance.

v. 72.  Fresh emeralds.]
Under foot the violet,
Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay
Broider’d the ground, more colour’d than with stone
Of costliest emblem. 
Milton, P. L. b. iv. 793

Compare Ariosto, Orl.  F. c. xxxiv. st. 49.

v. 79.  Salve Regina.] The beginning of a prayer to the Virgin.  It is sufficient here to observe, that in similar instances I shall either preserve the original Latin words or translate them, as it may seem best to suit the purpose of the verse.

v. 91.  The Emperor Rodolph.] See the last Canto, v. 104.  He died in 1291.

v. 95.  That country.] Bohemia.

v. 97.  Ottocar.] King of Bohemia, was killed in the battle of Marchfield, fought with Rodolph, August 26, 1278.  Winceslaus ii.  His son,who succeeded him in the kingdom of Bohemia. died in 1305.  He is again taxed with luxury in the Paradise Canto xix. 123.

v. 101.  That one with the nose deprest. ] Philip iii of France, who died in 1285, at Perpignan, in his retreat from Arragon.

v. 102.  Him of gentle look.] Henry of Naverre, father of Jane married to Philip iv of France, whom Dante calls “mal di Francia” -” Gallia’s bane.”

v. 110.  He so robust of limb.] Peter iii called the Great, King of Arragon, who died in 1285, leaving four sons, Alonzo, James, Frederick and Peter.  The two former succeeded him in the kingdom of Arragon, and Frederick in that of Sicily.  See G. Villani, 1. vii. c. 102. and Mariana, I. xiv. c. 9.  He is enumerated among the Provencal poets by Millot, Hist.  Litt.  Des Troubadours, t. iii. p. 150.

v. 111.  Him of feature prominent.] “Dal maschio naso"-with the masculine nose.”  Charles I. King of Naples, Count of Anjou, and brother of St. Lonis.  He died in 1284.  The annalist of Florence remarks, that “there had been no sovereign of the house of France, since the time of Charlemagne, by whom Charles was surpassed either in military renown, and prowess, or in the loftiness of his understanding.”  G. Villani, 1. vii. c. 94.  We shall, however, find many of his actions severely reprobated in the twentieth Canto.