v. 96.  One Guido from the other.] Guido Cavalcanti, the friend of our Poet, (see Hell, Canto X. 59.) had eclipsed the literary fame of Guido Guinicelli, of a noble family in Bologna, whom we shall meet with in the twenty-sixth Canto and of whom frequent mention is made by our Poet in his Treatise de Vulg.  Eloq.  Guinicelli died in 1276.  Many of Cavalcanti’s writings, hitherto in Ms. are now publishing at Florence” Esprit des Journaux, Jan. 1813.

v. 97.  He perhaps is born.] Some imagine, with much probability, that Dante here augurs the greatness of his own poetical reputation.  Others have fancied that he prophesies the glory of Petrarch.  But Petrarch was not yet born.

v. 136. suitor.] Provenzano salvani humbled himself so far for the sake of one of his friends, who was detained in captivity by Charles I of Sicily, as personally to supplicate the people of Sienna to contribute the sum required by the king for his ransom: 

and this act of self-abasement atoned for his general ambition and pride.

v. 140.  Thy neighbours soon.] “Thou wilt know in the time of thy banishment, which is near at hand, what it is to solicit favours of others and ‘tremble through every vein,’ lest they should be refused thee.”

CANTO XII

v. 26.  The Thymbraen god.] Apollo

Si modo, quem perhibes, pater est Thymbraeus Apollo.  Virg.  Georg. iv. 323.

v. 37.  Mars.]

With such a grace,
The giants that attempted to scale heaven
When they lay dead on the Phlegren plain
Mars did appear to Jove. 
Beaumont and Fletcher, The Prophetess, a. 2. s. 3.

v. 42.  O Rehoboam.] 1 Kings, c. xii. 18.

v. 46.  A1cmaeon.] Virg.  Aen. l. vi. 445, and Homer, Od. xi. 325.

v. 48.  Sennacherib.] 2 Kings, c. xix. 37.

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.