The latter has begun its revolt, but
whether it will succeed better in its attempt to restore mediaeval
methods, than the barons in maintaining them remains to be seen.
[3] Ghiberti's designs have been criticised by a too systematic
aestheticism, as confounding the limits of sculpture and painting.
But is not the _riliero_ precisely the bridge by which the one art
passes over into the territory of the other?
[4] Inferno, IV. 102.
[5] The Nouvelle Biographie Generale gives May 8 as his birthday.
This is a mere assumption, for Boccaccio only says generally May. The
indication which Dante himself gives that he was born when the sun
was in Gemini would give a range from about the middle of May to
about the middle of June, so that the 8th is certainly too early.
[6] Secolo di Dante, Udine edition of 1828, Vol. III. Part I. p.578.
[7] Arrivabene, however, is wrong. Boccaccio makes precisely the same
reckoning in the first note of his Commentary (Bocc. Comento, etc.,
Firenze, 1844, Vol. I. pp. 32, 33).
[8] Dict. Phil., art. _Dante_.
[9] Paradise, XXII.
[10] Canto XV.
[11] Purgatorio, XVI.
[12] Though he himself preferred French, and wrote his _Tresor_ in
that language for two reasons, _"l'una perche noi siamo in Francia, e
l'altra perche, la parlatura francesca e piu dilettevolee piu comune
che tutti li altri linguaggi_.
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