This comes from Terry Carlin in Singapore and Colin Carlin in England. It
essentially refers to a rather dastardly fictional character named Carlino
de Pazzi in Dante's "Inferno."
Despite this character's rather negative behavior, we should write up a two-
or three-paragraph reference to this for The Carlin Archives Online. My
undergraduate days are long past, so it's been quite some time since I read
"Inferno," so I'm not the one to write this up. Can you?
Terry Carlin says that "in Dorothy L Sayers' translation the reference is to
Carlin De Pazzi." His friend and colleague, Claire Honess, a Dante expert,
was "able to put the date on this refence to 1302 in Florence."
In a message to Terry, subsequently forwarded to me, Claire Honess wrote:
"This is what the new Dante Encyclopedia has to say about the name Carlino.
CARLINO DE' PAZZI
Betrayed his people and three members of his own family by giving over to
the Black Guelfs of Florence control of the castle of iantravigne, thereby
causing the capitulation of Pistoia. In Inferno 32.69, Carlino's kinsman,
Camiscion de' Pazzi, foretells Carlino's act of treachery, which took place
in 1302 and was therefore after the date of the pilgrim's journey.
Camiscion, who resides in Caina among the traitors to kin, suggests that
Carlino's sin will be far worse than his own, warranting his future
placement in Antenora among the traitors to homeland or political party.