Commentary Purg VI 78

Bernardino Daniello (DDP Daniello.Purg.VI.76-78) was apparently the first to notice the now often-cited biblical source for Dante's phrase 'donna di provincie' (princeps provinciarum) in Lamentations 1:1: 'How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!'  Jeremiah's lament for Jerusalem had been a central reference point for the death of Beatrice, recorded in Vita nuova XXVIII.1.