" (_Proemio, sul fine_.)
[13] Inferno, Canto VII.
[14] Paradiso, Canto X.
[15] See especially Inferno, IX. 112 et seq.; XII. 120; XV. 4 et
seq.; XXXII. 25-30.
[16] Vit. Nuov. p. 61, ed. Pesaro, 1829.
[17] Tratt. III. Cap. XI.
[18] Letter of Dante, now lost, cited by Aretino.
[19] Inferno, XXI. 94.
[20] Balbo, Vita di Dante, Firenze, 1853, p. 117.
[21] Life and Times of Dante, London, 1858, p. 80.
[22] Notes to Spenser's "Shepherd's Calendar."
[23] See the story at length in Balbo, Vita di Dante, Cap. X.
[24] Thus Foscolo. Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that at
first the blacks were the extreme Guelphs, and the whites those
moderate Guelphs inclined to make terms with the Ghibellines. The
matter is obscure, and Balbo contradicts himself about it.
[25] Secolo di Dante, p. 654. He would seem to have been in Rome
during the Jubilee of 1300. See Inferno, XVIII. 28-33.
[26] That Dante was not of the _grandi_, or great nobles (what we
call grandees), as some of his biographers have tried to make out, is
plain from this sentence, where his name appears low on the list and
with no ornamental prefix, after half a dozen _domini_.
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