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Cantos XXVI and XXVII

Prato  Cardianal Niccolo da Prato.

Eteocles  Greek Mythology. a son of Oedipus and Jocasta.

Polynices  Greek Mythology. a son of Oedipus and Jocasta.

Ulysses  the hero of Homer’s Odyssey; a king of Ithaca and one of the Greek leaders in the Trojan War.

Diomede  Greek Legend. a Greek warrior at the siege of Troy who helps Ulysses steal the statue of Athena.

ambush of the Horse  the Trojan Horse.

Circe  in Homer’s Odyssey, an enchantress who turns men into swine.

Penelope  Ulysses’ wife who waits faithfully for his return from the Trojan War.

Sicillian bull  an instrument of torture in which a person is placed inside a brass bull that is then placed over a fire; holes cut in the bull emit the tortured’s cries, sounding like a bull.

Verrucchio  the castle of Malatesta.

Great Priest  Pope Boniface III.

Prince of the New Pharisees  Pope Boniface III.

Silvestro  Pope who took refuge from Constantine during the persecutions of the Christians; later, he is said to have cured Constantine of leprosy.


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