Bayle,
however, is equally wrong in supposing his family to have been
obscure.
[27] See Witte, "Quando e da chi sia composto l' Ottimo Comento,"
etc. (Leipsic, 1847)
[28] Ott. Com. Parad. XVII.
[29] The loose way in which many Italian scholars write history is as
amazing as it is perplexing. For example: Count Balbo's "Life of
Dante" was published originally at Turin, in 1839. In a note (Lib. I.
Cap. X.) he expresses a doubt whether the date of Dante's banishment
should not be 1303, and inclines to think it should be. Meanwhile, it
seems never to have occurred to him to employ some one to look at the
original decree, still existing in the archives. Stranger still, Le
Monnier, reprinting the work at Florence in 1853, within a stone's
throw of the document itself, and with full permission from Balbo to
make corrections, leaves the matter just where it was.
[30] Convito, Tratt. I. Cap. III.
[31] Macchiavelli is the authority for this, and is carelessly cited
in the preface to the Udine edition of the "Codex Bartolinianus" as
placing it in 1312. Macchiavelli does no such thing, but expressly
implies an earlier date, perhaps 1310. (See Macch. Op. ed. Baretti,
London, 1772, Vol.
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