Note 52 — Night the Fifth. (continued 2)
W. G. (William George) Waters translation
Orig., e mutò le usate penne. The use of penne or piume for capelli is not uncommon. Thus in Dante, “Che riavesse le maschile penne” (Inferno, xx.); “Movendo quell’ oneste piume” (Purgatorio, i.).