Toynbee "Màrchia Trivisiana"

the March of Treviso, former province of Italy, comprising the greater part of the modern Venetia; it was bounded on the N. by the Tagliamento, on the S. by the Po, on the E. by the Gulf of Venice, and on the W. by the Adige; on the left side of Italy if the Apennines be taken as the dividing line (from N. to S.), V.E. I. x. 7; included in the jurisdiction of the bishop of Ostia as papal legate, Marchia Tervisina, Epist. i. 1. (some edd. read Maritima) [Maremma: Nicholaus]; its inhabitants coupled with those of the March of Ancona as utriusque Marchie viri, V.E. I. xix. 1. The March of Treviso, together with Lombardy and Romagna, is referred to by Marco Lombardo (in Circle III of Purgatory) as il paese ch'Adice e Po riga, [Purg. xvi. 115]; Cunizza (in the Heaven of Venus) refers to the March itself (in a more confined sense) as quella parte de la terra prava / italica che siede tra Rialto / e le fontane di Brenta e di Piava (i.e. the country which lies between the Piave on the N., the Brenta on the S., and Venice on the E.), [Par. ix. 25-27], she refers to the peoples of the March (i.e. the inhabitants of Vicenza, Padua, Treviso, Feltro, and Belluno), as la turba presente / che Tagliamento e Adice richiude, [Par. ix. 43-44]. [Trivisiani.]

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©Oxford University Press 1968. From A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante by Paget Toynbee (1968) by permission of Oxford University Press