Commentary Inf XXV 144

Campi (DDP Campi.Inf.XXV.142-144) points to Landino's and Vellutello's understanding of this Florentine verb, abborracciare, as meaning to make something of a botch of things as a result of working too quickly. Thus Dante's worries that his pen, following these never-before-observed and rapid transformations, may have blotted his page a bit when he attempted to set them down.