Editorial note — Dante Alighieri.
Reading edition
[Footnote 95: Ti mangi, "thou selfishly holdest for thy dainty food." This is one of those idioms expressed by the reciprocal pronoun "ti," almost impossible to translate. Its meaning is felt only by the native Italian.]
[Footnote 96: Fiero, here as the carcass on which a beast of prey will feed, from fiera, savage beast.]
[Footnote 97: Tal vicino, a neighbor so barbarously distressing another.]
[Footnote 98: Inteso Udire, hear by chance; ascoltare, to listen, intendere, to understand what you hear, or are told.]
[Footnote 99: Muda, the place where the republic's eagles were kept during moulting-time. Mudare, to moult.]
[Footnote 100: Ugolino had the dream while suffering the acute pangs of hunger. He dreamt of a famished wolf and its whelps, hunted by she-hounds, under which allegory he recognizes the Ghibellines, himself being a Guelf.]
[Footnote 101: San Giuliano, a mountain between Pisa and Lucca.]
[Footnote 102: The Pisans, about eight months after Ugolino's imprisonment, bolted the dungeon's massive doors, locked them, and threw the keys into the Arno.]
[Footnote 103: Dante calls the language of Southern France the language of oc, and the Italian the language of si; both oc and si meaning "yes."]
[Footnote 104: Two small islands at the mouth of the Arno.]