NOTES TO CANTO XXXI.
Nor aught beside by Zoroaster found,
Inventor as he was of magic art.
Stanza v. lines 5 and 6.
Zoroaster (we are told) was king of Bactria, previous to the Trojan war, and the inventor of magic or the doctrines of the magi.
The following day they met a cavalier,
Towards evening, with a lady by his side, &c.
Stanza viii. lines 1 and 2.
The knight turns out to be Guido the savage, and the lady is apparently his favourite wife Aleria, with whom he escaped from the city of Amazons. We do not learn how he had separated from his companions.
They—erst at feud and with sore hate possest,
Through Truffaldino, &c.
Stanza xli. lines 1 and 2.
During the siege of Albracea, where the Christian knights were engaged on different sides principally through Brunello;
