X/2 This is the first of many transformations of the Florentine lily. Here it is cut up and reassembled to make a warlike emblem reminiscent of a knight on horseback (the design was also meant to serve as a device for a notebook binding). Obscuring this are the dates of three battle landmarks in that history of bloody feuds related by Farinata. 1251 (MCCLI) is especially significant as the date at which, in celebration of shed blood, the old white emblem of the lily was changed to red. This same cut up version is repeated in Canto XXVIII/2 where its outline can be more clearly seen -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.