“Bestows upon the chief the sumptuous state,
“Whence Norman bands their power in Puglia date.
Stanza xxxiv. lines 7 and 8.
I will observe, in illustration of these lines, that Charles V. conferred on him the principality of Melsi in Puglia.
Nigh the famed gulf from ancient Magi hight.
Stanza xxxvii. line 4.
Foscari informs us that a gulf in the Persian sea was so called.
From whence he to the land of heroes crost.
Stanza xxxix. line 8.
The poet must mean Egypt ; but I do not know why he styles it the land of heroes: perhaps as the land of the Ptolemies, or perhaps as distinguished by the exploits of the crusaders.
Astolpho along Trajan’s channel goes.
Stanza xl. line 1.
The canal by which Trajan connected the Nile and the Red Sea.
Fed on pure air, and Rabican his name.
Stanza xli. line 4.
For the birth and breeding of Rabican see the Innamorato.
