Dante Alighieri (56 page)

Podestà; office of, in Florence,
5
n
.,
30
n
.

Podestà,
Palazzo
del, in Florence;

    
now known as Bargello,
129
;

    
portrait of Dante in,
129-35
;

    
fire in, mentioned by Villani,
130
n
.;

    
Mrs. Bunbury's account of,
132
n
.

Poggi, Andrea;

    
nephew of Dante,
39
;

    
resemblance to Dante,
39
;

    
supplies Boccaccio with information about Dante,
39
;

    
account of the recovery of the seven first cantos of the
Inferno
,
209-11
.

Poggi, Leon;

    
married Dante's half-sister,
38-9
;

    
his son Andrea intimate with Boccaccio,
39
. (
See above
.)

Poggibonsi;

    
Henry VII at,
95
.

Poggio Fiorentino.
See
Bracciolini.

Polentone, Secco (c. 1375-c. 1448);

    
notice of Dante,
277
;

    
two forms of,
277
n
.

Poletto, G.;

    
commentary on
D. C.
,
229
;

    
Dizionario Dantesco
,
230
.

Polish;

    
translation of
D. C.
, in,
217
.

Poliziano, Angelo (1454-1494);

    
authorship of
De Monarchia
attributed to friend of his by Oporinus,
239
n
.

Polyphemus;

    
name under which King Robert of Naples is supposed to figure in poetical correspondence between Dante and G. del Virgilio,
256
n
.

Poppi;

    
Dante at,
93
.

Portinari, Beatrice (1266-1290);

    
Dante's first meeting with,
43
;

    
identified by Boccaccio and Pietro di Dante with the Beatrice of
V. N
. and
D. C.
,
43
;

    
Boccaccio's account of,
43-5
;

    
salutes Dante,
45
;

    
denies him her salutation,
45
;

    
Dante sees her at a wedding-feast,
45-6
;

    
her marriage to Simone de' Bardi,
46
;

    
the marriage probably political,
46
n
.;

    
death of her father Folco,
46-7
;

    
mentioned in her father's will,
46-7
n
.;

    
her death,
47
,
63
,
67
,
71
,
161
,
165
;

    
date of her death,
47
n
.
48
n
.,
161
,
165
;

    
canzone on her death by Cino da Pistoja,
48-9
,
107
;

    
connection of number nine with,
164-6
;

    
Dante's resolve to say of her what had been said of no other woman fulfilled in
D. C.
,
193
.

Portinari, Folco (d. 1289);

    
father of Beatrice,
43-4
,
46-7
;

    
death of,
46-7
,
161
,
169
;

    
account of
46
n
.-
47
n
.;

    
his will,
46
n
.-
47
n
.;

    
founds hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence,
47
.

Portinari, Manetto (d. 1334) I eldest son of Folco Portinari,
47
n
.;

    
probably the near relation of Beatrice mentioned by Dante in
V. N
. as his intimate friend,
47
n
.,
171
;

    
friend of Guido Cavalcanti,
47
n
.

Portuguese;

    
translation of
D. C.
, in,
217
.

Pouget, Bertrand du (Cardinal, 1316-1351);

    
condemns Dante's
De Monarchia
to be burned,
102
,
232
;

    
created cardinal by his uncle, Pope John XXII,
232
n
.

Prato;

    
G. da Serravalle's commentary on
D. C.
, published at,
224-5
,
273
,
277
;

    
edition of Lombardi's commentary,
227
n
.;

    
Costa's commentary,
228
n
.

Prato, Niccolö da (Cardinal, 1303-1321);

    
sent by Benedict XI to pacify Florence,
90
,
246
;

    
Dante's letter to,
246-7
.

Preitenitto;

    
ancestor of Dante,
40
,
41
.

Professione di Fede
, Dante's; also known as Dante's
Credo
,
259
.
See Credo
.

Promis, V.;

    
joint editor of Stefano Talice da Ricaldone's so-called commentary on
D. C.
,
225
,
273
.

Prose Antiche di Dante
,
Petrarcha
,
et Boccaccio
,
249
n
.,
251
n
.

Provenzano Salvani.
See
Salvani.

Ptolemy, the astronomer;

    
quoted in
V. N
.,
66
.

Pucci, Antonio (c. 1310-c. 1390);

    
supposed reference to Giotto's portrait of Dante,
130
n
.;

    
notice of Dante in
Centiloquio
,
275
.

Purgatorio
;

    
alleged dedication to Moroello Malaspina,
92
n
.;

    
number of lines in,
197
;

    
date of composition,
198
;

    
scheme of,
200-3
;

    
English translations of,
219-20
.

Q

Quadrio, Francesco Saverio (1695-1756);

    
opinion of
Sette Salmi Penitenziali
attributed to Dante,
261
.

Quadrivium
;

    
Dante's instruction in arts of,
66
n
.

Quaestio de Aqua et Terra
;

    
treatise ascribed to Dante,
101
,
256
;

    
delivered as public dissertation at Verona,
101
,
257
;

    
disputed authenticity of,
101
,
256-8
;

    
account of,
256-8
;

    
editio princeps
of,
257
;

    
facsimile reprint of,
257
n
.,
258
n
.;

    
English translations,
258
n
.;

    
critical text of,
258
;

    
analysis of,
258-9
.

Quirini, Giovanni;

    
poetical correspondent of Dante,
107
n
.;

    
lament on Dante's death,
108
;

    
sonnet in defence of Dante's memory,
108
;

    
sonnet to Can Grande della Scala urging him to publish Dante's
Paradiso
,
108
.

R

Rafaello Volterrano.
See
Maffei.

Rajna, Pio;

    
La Lettera di Frate Ilario
,
92
n
.,
266
;

    
critical edition of
De Vulg. Eloq
.,
245
n
.,
246
.

Rambaldi da Imola, Benvenuto (c. 1338-1390);

    
account of Belacqua,
147
;

    
commentary on
D. C.
,
147
,
213
,
222
,
223
,
225
,
272
;

    
Italian translations of,
223
,
272
;

    
story of Dante and his rhymes,
213
;

    
Jacopo della Lana's commentary erroneously attributed to,
271
n
.;

    
lectures at Bologna on
D. C.
,
223
;

    
his lectures transcribed by Stefano Talice da Ricaldone,
223
n
.
273
n
.;

    
biographical notice of Dante,
275-6
.

Raphael (1483-1520);

    
portrait of Dante,
137
.

Ravenna;

    
Dante's daughter Beatrice a nun in convent of Santo Stefano dell' Uliva at,
70-1
;

    
visited by Boccaccio at,
71
;

    
Dante's children, Pietro, Jacopo, and Beatrice, with him at,
71
,
99
;

    
Dante's last refuge,
99
;

    
Commedia
completed at,
100
;

    
Dante's friends at,
100
n
.;

    
death of Dante at,
103
;

    
burial and tomb,
103-7
,
111
;

    
Fynes Moryson at,
106
n
.,
107
n
.;

    
people of, refuse to part with Dante's remains,
109
,
112-15
;

    
relics of Dante in Biblioteca Nazionale at,
118
n
.;

    
Boccaccio's visits to,
119
;

    
Dante and the Inquisitor at,
151-2
.

Reckoning, Florentine method of,
28
n
.,
36
n
.

Ricaldone, Stefano Talice da (d. c. 1520);

    
his so-called commentary on
D. C.
a transcription of Benvenuto da Imola's lectures at Bologna,
223
n
.,
273
n
.

Ricci, Corrado;

    
L'Ultimo Rifugio di Dante
,
100
n
.,
103
n
.,
104
n
.,
106
n
.,
113
n
.,
114
n
.,
116
n
.,
118
n
.,
137
n
.,
252
n
.,
253
n
.;

    
opinion of death mask of Dante,
137
n
.

Ricci, Stefano;

    
possessed mask of Dante,
137
;

    
statue of Dante in Santa

Croce,
137
n
.

Richardson, Jonathan (1665-1745);

    
translated Ugolino episode from
D. C.
,
218
.

Rime di Trecentisti Minori
,
131
n
.

Rinuccini, Filippo di Cino (1392-1462);

    
Vita di Dante
,
278
.

Robert (King of Naples, 1309-1343);

    
Guido of Battifolle his Vicar in Florence,
98
n
.;

    
opponent of Henry VII,
152
;

    
anecdote of Dante and,
152-4
;

    
his defeat of Ghibellines in 1318-19 suggested to Dante by G. del Virgilio as subject for Latin poem,
253-4
;

    
supposed to figure as Polyphemus in poetical correspondence between Dante and G. del Virgilio,
256
.

Rocca, L.;

    
Del commento di Pietro di Dante alla D. C.
,
41
n
.;

    
Di Alcuni Commenti della D. C. composti nei primi vent'anni dopo la morte di Dante
,
yon
.,
221
n
.,
222
n
.,
223
n
;