This poem reads:

"The sea is calm tonight.

The tide is full, the moon lies fair

The day after Beatrice shows Castruccio the secret passage into Ferrara through the palace of Madonna Marchesena, viscountess di Malvezzi—"a magnificent palace close to the eastern gate of Ferrara" (201)—Castruccio goes the Church of St. Anna (Chiesa di Sant'Anna), where he sees sees Beatrice's prophesy interrupted when she is arrested by Dominican inquisitors (213). The inquisitors bring her before the bishop at the episcopal palace in Ferrara, where Beatrice appeals to the "Judgement of God" (214).