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Endnotes explained
This chapter contains endnotes referencing Dante and a call to arms, likely providing citations or clarifications for earlier passages.
What happens
This chapter contains endnotes referencing Dante and a call to arms, likely providing citations or clarifications for earlier passages.
Key passages
“Dante’s words are best rendered by our own poet in the lines at the head of the chapter.”
The author notes that Dante's original text is best translated by an English poet, as shown in the epigraph.
This endnote acknowledges a poetic translation of Dante.
“Do none of thy children defend thee? Arms! bring me arms! alone I will fight, alone I will fall.”
A cry for defense and weapons, expressing a determination to fight and perish alone.
This appears to be a dramatic quotation, possibly from a literary source.