II. See Coxe’s House of Austria, vol. i. p. 1. p. 86.

4to edit. v. 140. Navarre.] Navarre was now under the yoke of France. It soon after (in 1328) followed the advice of Dante and had a monarch of its own. Mariana, 1. xv. c. 19. v. 141. Mountainous girdle.] The Pyrenees. v. 143. -Famagosta’s streets And Nicosia’s.] Cities in the kingdom of Cyprus, at that time ruled by Henry II a pusillanimous prince. Vertot. Hist. des Chev. de Malte, 1. iii. iv. The meaning appears to be, that the complaints made by those cities of their weak and worthless governor, may be regarded as an earnest of his condemnation at the last doom. CANTO XX v. 6. Wherein one shines.] The light of the sun, whence he supposes the other celestial bodies to derive their light v. 8. The great sign.] The eagle, the Imperial ensign. v. 34. Who.] David. v. 39. He.] Trajan. See Purgatory, Canto X. 68. v. 44. He next.] Hezekiah. v. 50. The other following.] Constantine. There is no passage in which Dante’s opinion of the evil; that had arisen from the mixture of the civil with the ecclesiastical power, is more unequivocally declared. v. 57. William.] William II, king of Sicily, at the latter part of the twelfth century He was of the Norman line of sovereigns, and obtained the appellation of “the Good” and, as the poet says his loss was as much the subject of regret in his dominions, as the presence of Charles I of Anjou and Frederick of Arragon, was of sorrow and complaint. v. 62. Trojan Ripheus.] Ripheus, justissimus unus Qui fuit in Teneris, et servantissimus aequi. Virg. Aen. 1. ii. 4—. v. 97. This.] Ripheus. v. 98. That.] Trajan. v. 103. The prayers,] The prayers of St. Gregory v. 119. The three nymphs.] Faith, Hope, and Charity. Purgatory, Canto