XI. UNA NOTTE INFERNALE.
[1]o che. These words introduce the question; compare II., note 10.
[2]Ma il diavolo... coda, But the Old Nick has taken a hand in the matter.
[3]da quell', like the.
[4]Corpo... Maccabei! Zounds! The Maccabei were seven brothers who, with their mother, are said to have suffered martyrdom under Antiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria, in 168 B.C.
[5]Sarà più in là, It must be farther on.
[6]casa cantoniera, flagman's house.
