Dante Alighieri (44 page)

    
35. M
ARCANTONIO
N
ICOLETTI
(1536-1596); in his
Vite degli scrittori volgari illustri libri iv
; first printed at Milan (s.a.) (by A. Solerti, in
Le Vite di Dante
,
Petrarca e Boccaccio, scritte fino al secolo decimosesto
).
²⁸

    
36. J
EAN
P
APIRE
M
ASSON
(1544-1611): in Latin, in his
Vitae trium Hetruriae procerum Dantis
,
Petrarchae
,
Boccacii
; first printed at Paris, 1587.

    
37. F
RANCESCO
B
OCCHI
(1548-1618): in Latin, in his
Elogia Florentinorum Doctrinis Insignium
(i. § 20); first printed at Florence, 1609.

    
38. A
LESSANDRO
Z
ILIOLI
(fl. 1600-1630); in his
Istoria delle Vite de' Poeti Italiani
; first printed at Milan (s.a.) (by A. Solerti, in
Le Vite di Dante
,
Petrarca e Boccaccio
,
scritte fino al secolo decimosesto
).
²⁹

    
The above lives and notices of Dante (with the exception of Nos. 3, 10, 26, 29, 33), many of which were previously more or less inaccessible, as being either in MSS. or in rare early editions, have recently been printed, some for the first time, by Angelo Solerti in his collection of the lives of Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, down to the end of the sixteenth century, published at Milan under the title of
Le Vite di Dante
,
Petrarca e Boccaccio, scritte fino al secolo decimosesto
(s.a.).

    
Information as to the credibility and sources of many of these notices of Dante will be found in
Storia della Letteratura Italiana
(vol. v.), by Adolfo Bartoli (Florence, 1884);
Dante and his Early Biographers
, by Edward Moore (London, 1890);
Studi Danteschi
, by Vittorio Imbriani (Florence, 1891);
Alcuni Capitoli delta Biografia di Dante
, by Michele Scherillo (Turin, 1896); and in the volume of Solerti mentioned above.

    
In addition to these, the reader may be referred to the
Vita di Dante
of Count Cesare Balbo (first published at Turin in
1839; reissued at Florence by Le Monnier, with additional notes by Emmanuele Rocco, in 1853), of which an English translation, with modifications and additions, by Mrs. F. J. Bunbury, was published in London in two volumes in 1852; the
Vita di Dante
of Melchior Missirini (published at Florence in 1840); the
Storia della Vita di Dante
by Pietro Fraticelli (first published at Florence in 1861), which is based upon the
Memorie per servire alla vita di Dante
, collected by Giuseppe Pelli (first published at Venice in 1758, in second part of vol. iv. of Antonio Zatta's edition of
Le Opere di Dante
; second and enlarged edition published at Florence in 1823); the
Companion to Dante
(London, 1893) of G. A. Scartazzini, which is a translation (with modifications), by A. J. Butler, of the same author's
Dante-Handbuch
(Leipzig, 1892), which in its turn is a
rifacimento
of the author's own
Prolegomeni della Divina Commedia
(Leipzig, 1890); and, lastly, to the first part of Nicola Zingarelli's exhaustive volume upon Dante in the
Storia Letteraria d' Italia
(Milan, 1903), of which a compendium (
La Vita di Dante in Compendio
), was published at Milan in 1905.

    
References to numerous other works (many of them by English writers), including the valuable monographs by Isidoro Del Lungo, will be found in the bibliographical sections
³⁰
of the above-mentioned works of Scartazzini, as well as, under various headings, in the same writer's
Enciclopedia Dantesca
(Milan, 1896-9).

 

    
¹
In modern editions of Villani this chapter is numbered 136.

    
²
Boccaccio's
Vita di Dante
exists in two forms, one of which, commonly known as the
Compendio
, is shorter than the other. The latest writer on the subject (E. Rostagno :
La Vita di Dante
,
Testo del così detto Compendio attribuito a Giovanni Boccaccio
. Bologna, 1899) argues, with some probability, that the so-called
Compendio
is Boccaccio's first draft of his work.

    
³
In the
Delizie degli Eruditi Toscani
(vol. iii. ff.) the author's name is given as Marchionne di Coppo Stefani.

    
⁴
See A. Solerti:
Le Vite di Dante
,
Petrarca e Boccaccio, scritte fino at secolo decimosesto
, p. 81.

    
⁵
Based on Benvenuto da Imola.

    
⁶
See A. Solerti:
Le Vite di Dante, Petrarca e Boccaccio
,
scritte fino al secolo decimosesto
, p. 76.

    
⁷
See Haym,
Biblioteca Italiana
, 1781, p. 157 note 5.

    
⁸
See Tiraboschi:
Storia della hetteratura Italiana
, vi. Pte. 2, pp. 1141-5 (ed. Milan, 1824).

    
⁹
See Carlo del Balzo:
Poesie di mille Autori intorno a Dante Alighieri
, iii. 224-241 (Rome, 1891); and Moore:
Dante and his Early Biographers
, pp. 88
n
. 3, 113-15.

    
¹⁰
See Moore:
op
.
cit
. 110-13. Of this work but four MSS. are known, only three of which are complete; one of these is in the British Museum, another in the Vatican Library, and the third in the Escorial (see A. Farinelli,
Dante in Ispagna
, p. 70
n
.).

    
¹¹
See Tiraboschi:
Storia della Letteratura Italiana
, vi. Pte. 2, pp. 1145-7 (ed. Milan, 1824). Polentone's work exists in two forms, the one much shorter than the other—the notice of Dante is printed in both forms by A. Solerti, in
Le Vite di Dante
,
etc
. pp. 154-5.

    
¹²
Tiraboschi mentions an edition of Venice, 1480; but this is unknown to Hain, Brunet, and Proctor.

    
¹³
See
Bullettino della Societa Dantesea Italiana
, No. 8 (1892), pp. 21-2, 25 ; and Haym :
Biblioteca Italiana
, 1781, p. 29 note 7.

    
¹⁴
No. xvi. p. 157.

    
¹⁵
Written
circ
. 1450 ; based on Vellutello and Leonardo Bruni.

    
¹⁶
See A. Solerti:
Le Vite di Dante, etc
., p. 97.

    
¹⁷
The text of this notice is printed in the
Modern Quarterly of Language and Literature
for March, 1898 (p. 52), where reference is made to an article in the
Historisches Jahrbuch
by Prof. Grauert, who shows that the
Speculum
notice (No. 23) was borrowed from that in the
Nuremberg Chronicle
(No. 22), and that that was borrowed from the notice in the
Supplementum
of Filippo da Bergamo, which in its turn was based on two passages in the
De Genealogia Deorum
of Boccaccio. (See above, No. 2.)

    
¹⁸
See Haym:
Biblioteca Italiana
, 1781, p. 36 note 5.

    
¹⁹
See above, note 4.

    
²⁰
See Paget Toynbee:
A Biographical Notice of Dante in the
1494
edition of the Speculum Historiale
(in
Eng
.
Hist
.
Rev
., April 1895); and supplementary article on the same, in
Mod. Quart
.
Lang
.
Lit
., March 1898 (see above, note 4).

    
²¹
See A. Solerti:
Le Vite di Dante
,
etc
. p. 197.

    
²²
See Père Hardouin:
Doutes sur l'âge du Dante
, pp. 25-6 (ed. Paris, 1847); and Tiraboschi:
Storia della Letteratura Italiana
, vii. p. 1166.

    
²³
See A. Solerti:
Vite di Dante
,
etc
. p. 199.

    
²⁴
See A. Solerti:
Vite di Dante
,
etc
. pp. 200-1.

    
²⁵
Actually only xx.

    
²⁶
See
Bullettino della Società Dantesca Italiana
, No. 8 (1892), pp. 24-5; and Haym:
Biblioteca Italiana
, 1781, p. 73, n. 8.

    
²⁷
See Edward Leigh:
A Treatise of Religion and Learning
,
and of Religious and Learned Men
(1656), p. 177; and Paget Toynbee:
Dante in English Literature from Chaucer to Cary
, vol. i. p. 148.

    
²⁸
No. xxxi. pp. 222-33.

    
²⁹
No. xxxii. pp. 234-6.

    
³⁰
Omitted from the English edition.

A

Abati;

    
Ghibelline family of Florence,
37
n
.,
38
;

    
Dante's mother perhaps member of,
37
n
.,
38
.

Abati, Bocca degli;

    
his treachery at Montaperti,
24
.

Abati, Durante degli;

    
maternal grandfather (as is supposed) of Dante,
38
.

Abati, Scolaio degli;

    
maternal great-grandfather (as is supposed) of Dante,
38
.

Accursius (d. 1260);

    
proposed monument to, in Duomo at Florence,
112
.

Adamo;

    
great-great-great-grandfather of Dante,
40
.

Adamo, Maestro;

    
burnt alive for coining,
84
n
.

Adimari family of Florence;

    
their hostility to Dante,
43
n
.,
149
;

    
Dante's relations with,
147-9
.

Adolf (Emperor, 1292-1298);

    
not recognized as Emperor by Dante,
234-5
n
.

Aguglione, Baldo d' (d. c. 1315);

    
his
Riforma
,
95
.

Aix;

    
corohation of Henry VII at,
235
n.

Alberico da Rosciate.
See
Rosciate.

Albert I (Emperor, 1298-1308);

    
reference to, in
Convivio
,
235
n
.;

    
not recognized as Emperor by Dante,
234-5
n
.

Albertino Mussato.
See
Mussato.

Albini, G.;

    
critical edition of Dante's
Eclogues
,
253
.

Aldobrandi, Tegghiaio;

    
Florentine Guelf,
21
.

Aldus (Aldo Manuzio) (1450-1515);

    
editions of
D. C.
printed by,
214
.

Alfraganus;

    
Dante's astronomical authority,
48
n
.,
67
.

Alighieri, Alighiera degli;

    
Dante's great-great-grandmother,
40
,
41
.

Alighieri, Alighiero degli;

    
Dante's great-grandfather,
40
,
41
;

    
his wife and sons,
41
.

Alighieri, Alighiero degli;

    
Dante's father,
37
,
38
;

    
a notary,
38
;

    
mention of, in documents,
38
n
.;

    
twice married,
38
;

    
his children,
38
;

    
position of, in Florence,
39
;

    
character of,
39
;

    
alluded to by Forese Donati,
39
;

    
eldest son of Bellincione, grandson of Cacciaguida,
42
.

Alighieri, Antonia;

    
Dante's daughter,
70
;

    
identified by some with Beatrice Alighieri,
71
n
.

Alighieri, Beatrice;

    
Dante's daughter,
70
;

    
with Dante at Ravenna,
71
,
99
;

    
a nun in the convent of Santo Stefano dell'

    
Uliva,
71
;