Meon), V. ii. pp. 78, 79.
[59] Dante, Studien, etc., 1855, p. 144.
[60] Compare also Spinoza, Tractat. polit., Cap. VI.
[61] It is instructive to compare Dante's political treatise with
those of Aristotle and Spinoza. We thus see more clearly the
limitations of the age in which he lived, and this may help us to a
broader view of him as poet.
[62] A very good one may be found in the sixth volume of the Molini
edition of Dante, pp. 391-433.
[63] See Field's "Theory of Colors."
[64] As by Dante himself in the Convito.
[65] Psalm cxiv. 1, 2.
[66] He commonly prefaced his letters with some such phrase as _exul
immeritus_.
[67] In order to fix more precisely in the mind the place of Dante in
relation to the history of thought, literature, and events, we
subjoin a few dates: Dante born, 1265; end of Crusades, death of St.
Louis, 1270; Aquinas died, 1274; Bonaventura died, 1274; Giotto born,
1276; Albertus Magnus died, 1280; Sicilian vespers, 1282; death of
Ugolino and Francesca da Rimini, 1282; death of Beatrice, 1290; Roger
Bacon died, 1292; death of Cimabue, 1302; Dante's banishment, 1302;
Petrarch born, 1304; Fra Dolcino burned, 1307; Pope Clement V. at
Avignon, 1309; Templars suppressed, 1312; Boccaccio born, 1313; Dante
died, 1321; Wycliffe born, 1324; Chaucer born, 1328.
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