by Matthew Gordon
1.
To eliminate confusion, Dante the poet is hereon designated Alighieri, and Dante the pilgrim as Dante.
2.
Dante, Inferno, trans. Allen Mandelbaum (New York: Bantam Books, 1982), Canto XIII, 4. Hereon, subsequent references to Inferno will be in the form: (Canto, Line no.)
3.
Porena. Commentary on Canto 13, line 33. Dartmouth Dante Database.
4.
Seneca, Hercules Furens. Referential commentary on Canto 13 from Longfellow, lines 2-9. Dartmouth Dante Database.
5.
Zimmerman, J.E. Dictionary of Classical Mythology. (New York, Bantam Books, 1964) p. 117.
6.
Virgil, Aeneid, trans. Allen Mandelbaum (Berkeley: U. of Cal. Press, 1971.) Book III, 278-287.
7.
Singleton. Commentary on Canto XIII, lines 31-45 using Virgil's Aeneid.
8.
Longfellow. Commentary on Canto 26, line 4. Dartmouth Dante Database.
9.
Ovid, Metamorphoses. trans. Rolfe Humphries (Bloomington, U. of Indiana Press), 1983) Book IV, lines 373-79.
10.
Singleton. Commentary on Canto 25, line 143. Dartmouth Dante Database.
11.
Ovid, Book IV, li. 576-589.