Commentary Purg XIV 46-48

Next downstream is Arezzo, from which city the river turns sharply away in order to head northwest toward Florence as though it wanted to avoid the nasty 'whelps' of Arezzo.  Like the Texas rancher who is all hat and no cattle, these little dogs are all snarl or bark and no bite -- or so the Ottimo (DDP Ottimo.Purg.XIV.46-47) thought.