The narrator's account Beatrice's travels after leaving Ferrara is vague. She stops twice due to illness, first at "an hospital for pilgrims" (356), second at another hospital where she was "confined for six weeks" (357), but the exact locations of these are not specified. Later, she arrives at Pistoia, Italy, the first specific location Beatrice mentions in her account of her travels after leaving Ferrara:
"I crossed the Apennines during the summer, and passing through Florence I arrived at Pistoia in the beginning of June. ... I remained nearly three months at Pistoia, very unhappy, hesitating,—cast about, as a boat that for ever shifts its sail, but can never find the right wind to lead it to port." (357)