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The Divine Comedy, Volume 2, Purgatory

Note 1 — CANTO XI.

Charles Eliot Norton translation

The Aldobrandeschi were the counts of Santa Fiore (see Canto VI.) in the Sienese Maremma. Little is known of them, but that they were in constant feud with Siena. The one who speaks was murdered in his own stronghold of Campagnatico, in 1259.

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