I. p. 60.)
[32] See Carlyle's "Frederic," Vol. I. p. 147.
[33] A mistake, for Guido did not become lord of Ravenna till several
years later. But Boccaccio also assigns 1313 as the date of Dante's
withdrawal to that city, and his first protector may have been one of
the other Polentani to whom Guido (surnamed Novello, or the Younger;
his grandfather having borne the same name) succeeded.
[34] Under this date (1315) a 4th _condemnatio_ against Dante is
mentioned _facta in anno 1315 de mense Octobris per D. Rainerium, D.
Zachario de Urbeveteri, olim et tunc vicarium regium civitatis
Florentia_, etc. It is found recited in the decree under which in
1342 Jacopo di Dante redeemed a portion of his father's property, to
wit: _Una possessione cum vinea et cum domibus super ea, combustis et
non combustis, posita in populo S. Miniatis de Pagnlao_. In the
_domibus combustis_ we see the blackened traces of Dante's kinsman by
marriage, Corso Donati, who plundered and burnt the houses of the
exiled Bianchi, during the occupation of the city by Charles of
Valois. (See "De Romanis," notes on Tiraboschi's Life of Dante, in
the Florence ed. of 1830, Vol. V. p. 119.)
[35] Voltaire's blunder has been made part of a serious theory by
Mons.
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