All 39 Uses of
allude
in
The Divine Comedy -- translated by Cary
- See Notes to Canto XXVII. v. 43 The whole of this passage is alluded to by Petrarch, in his Triumph of Love c. iii. v. 118.†
Canto 1.N. *
- The incident alluded to seems to have made a strong impression on the imagination of Dante, who introduces it again, less happily, in the Paradise, Canto XVI. v. 128.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] This appears to allude to certain prayers which were offered up in the churches of Florence, for deliverance from the hostile attempts of the Uberti. v. 90.†
Canto 1.N.
- But I am of opinion that Dante makes Virgil allude to his own story of Polydorus in the third book of the Aeneid. v. 56.†
Canto 1.N.
- Chaucer alludes to this in the Prologue to the Legende of Good women.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] Landino refers to Albertus Magnus for the circumstance here alluded to. v. 53.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] He alludes to that passage in the Eunuchus of Terence where Thraso asks if Thais was obliged to him for the present he had sent her, and Gnatho replies, that she had expressed her obligation in the most forcible terms.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] He alludes to the pretended gift of the Lateran by Constantine to Silvester, of which Dante himself seems to imply a doubt, in his treatise "De Monarchia."†
Canto 1.N.
- The same superstition is alluded to in the Paradise, Canto II.†
Canto 1.N.
- The awful event alluded to, the Evangelists inform us, happened "at the ninth hour," that is, our sixth, when "the rocks were rent," and the convulsion, according to Dante, was felt even in the depths in Hell.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] The commentators explain this prophetical threat to allude to the victory obtained by the Marquis Marcello Malaspina of Valdimagra (a tract of country now called the Lunigiana) who put himself at the head of the Neri and defeated their opponents the Bianchi, in the Campo Piceno near Pistoia, soon after the occurrence related in the preceding note.†
Canto 1.N.
- Ovid, Epist. xix The same poetical superstition is alluded to in the Purgatory, Cant.†
Canto 1.N.
- This imagined voyage of Ulysses into the Atlantic is alluded to by Pulci.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] He alludes to the renegade Christians, by whom the Saracens, in Apri.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] He alludes to tile victory which Charles gained over Conradino, by the sage advice of the Sieur de Valeri, in 1208.†
Canto 1.N.
- ] He alludes to the fable of the ants changed into Myrmidons.†
Canto 1.N.
- The same allusion was made by Bernard de Ventadour, a Provencal poet in the middle of the twelfth century: and Millot observes, that it was a singular instance of erudition in a Troubadour.†
Canto 1.N.
- Milton has a fine allusion to this meeting in his sonnet to Henry Lawes. v. 90.†
Canto 2.N
- He fell in the battle with Charles of Anjou in 1265, alluded to in Canto XXVIII, of Hell, v. 13, "Dying, excommunicated, King Charles did allow of his being buried in sacred ground, but he was interred near the bridge of Benevento, and on his grave there was cast a stone by every one of the army whence there was formed a great mound of stones.†
Canto 2.N
- ] He alludes to the precept"Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's." v. 98.†
Canto 2.N
- What he alludes to is so doubtful, that it is not certain whether we should not read "come si cura"—"†
Canto 2.N
- ] In allusion to certain instances of fraud committed with respect to the public accounts and measures See Paradise Canto XVI.†
Canto 2.N
- Orestes] Alluding to his friendship with Pylades v. 32.†
Canto 2.N
- Dante probably alludes to the story of Philomela, as it is found in Homer's Odyssey, b. xix.†
Canto 2.N
- ] He is thought to allude to Can Grande della Scala.†
Canto 2.N
- , took the title of King of Navarre: and the subjugation of Navarre is also alluded to in the Paradise, Canto XIX.†
Canto 2.N
- ] It is uncertain whether our Poet alludes still to the event mentioned in the preceding Note, or to the destruction of the order of the Templars in 1310, but the latter appears more probable. v. 103.†
Canto 2.N
- An allusion to the donations made by the Roman Emperors to the church. v. 130.†
Canto 2.N
- Is it not more likely to allude to Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France, who was sent for, about this time, into Italy by Pope Boniface, with the promise of being made emperor?†
Canto 3.N
- ] He alludes to the occupation of the kingdom of Sicily by Robert, in exclusion of his brother s son Carobert, or Charles.†
Canto 3.N
- ] Alluding to the terrible slaughter of the Genoese made by the Saracens in 936, for which event Vellutello refers to the history of Augustino Giustiniani. v. 91.†
Canto 3.N
- ] He alludes either to the death of Pope Boniface VIII. or, as Venturi supposes, to the coming of the Emperor Henry VII. into Italy, or else, according to the yet more probable conjecture of Lombardi, to the transfer of the holy see from Rome to Avignon, which took place in the pontificate of Clement V. CANTO X v. 7.†
Canto 3.N
- ] This alludes to the beginning of the Liber Sententiarum, where Peter says: "Cupiens aliquid de penuria ac tenuitate nostra cum paupercula in gazophylacium domini mittere," v. 105.†
Canto 3.N
- ] Alluding to the stigmata, or marks resembling the wounds of Christ, said to have been found on the saint's body. v. 106.†
Canto 3.N
- ] A passage in the travels of Bertradon de la Brocquiere, translated by Mr. Johnes, will explain this allusion, which has given some trouble to the commentators.†
Canto 3.N
- The individual here alluded to is no longer known. v. 69.†
Canto 3.N
- It seems probable that the allusion is to Ferdinand IV who came to the crown in 1295, and died in 1312, at the age of twenty four, in consequence, as it was supposed, of his extreme intemperance.†
Canto 3.N
- Perhaps the rebellious son of Dionysius may be alluded to. v. 136.†
Canto 3.N
- ] He alludes to Jacques d'Ossa, a native of Cahors, who filled the papal chair in 1316, after it had been two years vacant, and assumed the name of John XXII.†
Canto 3.N
Definition:
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(allude) to make an indirect referenceeditor's notes: The expression, no allusion can mean "not even an indirect reference"; i.e., neither a direct nor an indirect reference to something.