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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Divine Comedy (translated by H.F. Cary) by Dante Alighieri: v. 102 Sardanapalus.] The luxurious monarch of Assyria Juvenal
is here imitated, who uses his name for an instance of
effeminacy. Sat.
v. 103. Montemalo ] Either an elevated spot between Rome and
Viterbo, or Monte Mario, the site of the villa Mellini,
commanding a view of Rome.
v. 101. Our suburban turret.] Uccellatojo, near Florence, from
whence that city was discovered.
v. 103. Bellincion Berti.] Hell, Canto XVI. 38. nd Notes.
There is a curious description of the simple manner in which the
earlier Florentines dressed themselves in G. Villani, 1 vi. c.
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