XIX/2 Here the groundplan of the Baptistry of Florence (mio bel San Giovanni) is shown with a hypothetical arrangement of fonts that would fit both Dante's description and other contemporary accounts. To show the Popes undergoing their mock Baptism and their parodied anointing with the flaming oil, we see their feet projecting from these fonts: all, that is, except the one that Dante mentions having broken in a symbolic act of pious rescue (hence the cross-shaped fracture which implicitly vindicates his action). The general floor design reinforces the Florentine associations of the building to which Dante longed to return in triumph and receive the poet's crown (cf. Canto IV/2). The feet actually used (with some irony and no malice) are those of Mark Boyle, the only feet I could find seen thus (so to speak) head-on. They are taken from 'Journey to the Surface of the Earth' (editions hansjorg mayer). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.