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The text says,

Ma conveniesi, a quella pietra scema che guarda 'l ponte, che Fiorenza fesse vittima ne la sua pace postrema.

"But it was needful that to the wasted stone which guards the bridge Florence should offer a victim in her last days of peace." (The wasted stone was the statue of Mars that stood at the entrance of the Ponte Vecchio. Here Buondelmonte's carriage was assaulted on Easter Sunday.) The feast of the Resurrection following the sacrifice of Christ stands in ironic contrast to the consequences of the Buondelmonte murder. What Dante has done in this tercet is to call attention to two different versions of blood sacrifice, the one of the earthly, the other of the heavenly city.

This information is from FOUNDATION SACRIFICE AND FLORENTINE HISTORY: DANTE'S ANTI-MYTH, by Ricardo Quinones, 1989 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.207.199.231 (talk • contribs)