Dante Alighieri (45 page)

    
visited by Boccaccio there,
71
;

    
her bequest to the convent,
71
;

    
identified by some with Antonia Alighieri,
71
n
.

Alighieri, Bellincione degli;

    
Dante's grandfather,
37
,
41
;

    
his sons,
42
.

Alighieri, Dante (1265-1321);

    
mention of, in documents,
38
n
.,
53
,
72-3
,
74
,
82
,
83
,
84
,
91
;

    
birth of,
36
,
42
;

    
his family Guelfs,
36-7
;

    
a friend of Giovanni Villani,
37
n
.;

    
his parentage,
37-8
;

    
stepmother,
37
n
.;

    
house in Florence,
37
n
.;

    
descent,
37-42
;

    
half-brother and half-sisters,
38-9
;

    
origin of his Christian name,
38
;

    
his nephew Andrea Poggi,
39
;

    
poetical correspondence with Forese Donati,
39
,
51
;

    
earliest known ancestors,
40
;

    
approves the
Vendetta
,
41
;

    
born in Florence,
42
;

    
his baptism,
42
;

    
breaks the font of San Giovanni,
42-3
;

    
first meeting with Beatrice,
43
;

    
his love for her,
43-5
,
53
,
63
;

    
grief at her death,
47-9
,
63
;

    
tradition as to his having joined the Franciscan Order,
48
n
.;

    
correspondence with Cino da Pistoja and Guido Cavalcanti,
48-52
;

    
alleged unfaithfulness to memory of Beatrice,
51
,
71
;

    
comes of age,
53
;

    
military service,
53-63
;

    
at battle of Campaldino,
53-4
,
57
,
61
,
62
,
74
;

    
alleged account of the battle,
57
n
.,
251
;

    
his handwriting,
54
n
.;

    
at capitulation of Caprona,
62
;

    
early studies,
64-7
;

    
relations with Brunetto Latino,
64
;

    
artistic skill,
65
,
72
;

    
familiarity with Provençal literature,
66
;

    
ignorance of Greek,
66
;

    
attendance at the schools of the Dominicans of Santa Maria Novella,
66
n
.;

    
alleged studies at Bologna and Padua,
67
;

    
marriage,
67-9
;

    
Boccaccio's picture of his married life,
67-9
;

    
children,
69-71
;

    
descendants,
70
n
.;

    
alleged amours,
71
;

    
attachment to lady at Lucca,
71
,
97
;

    
enrolled in Guild of Apothecaries,
72
;

    
details of public life,
72-4
;

    
embassy to San Gemignano,
73
;

    
priorate,
74
,
75
,
78
,
81
,
86
;

    
document relating to,
74
n
.;

    
belongs to White faction,
82
;

    
in charge of public works in Florence,
82
;

    
opposes Pope Boniface,
82
;

    
embassy to Rome,
83
,
124-5
;

    
charges against,
83-4
;

    
sentenced to banishment, and afterwards to death,
83-4
,
88
,
98
;

    
confiscation of his goods,
84-5
;

    
his private property,
85-6
;

    
loans and debts,
86-7
;

    
in exile,
88-118
;

    
references to his sufferings, in
Convivio
,
88-9
,
91
,
175
,
177
;

    
in
De Vulg. Eloq
.,
89
;

    
his wanderings,
89-103
;

    
at San Godenzo,
90
;

    
holds aloof from other exiles,
90
;

    
at Forli,
90
;

    
at Verona with the Scaligers,
91
;

    
alleged visit to Padua,
91
;

    
doubts as to this visit,
91
n
.;

    
at Sarzana with the Malaspini,
91
;

    
relations with them,
91-2
;

    
supposed visit to monastery of Santa Croce del Corvo,
92
n
.;

    
in Paris,
92
;

    
alleged visit to England and Oxford,
92-3
;

    
back in Italy,
93
;

    
in Tuscany,
93-4
;

    
present at coronation of Henry VII at Milan,
94
;

    
letters to the Princes and Peoples of Italy, to the Florentines, and to Henry VII,
93-4
,
95-6
;

    
excluded from amnesty,
95
;

    
hopes of return to Florence extinguished by death of Henry VII,
96-7
;

    
letter to the Italian Cardinals,
97
;

    
at Lucca,
97
;

    
attachment to Gentucca,
97
;

    
again sentenced to death,
98
;

    
rejects pardon,
98-9
;

    
letter to friend in Florence,
98-9
;

    
again at Verona,
99
;

    
goes to Ravenna,
99
;

    
life at Ravenna,
99-100
;

    
friends at Ravenna,
100
n
.;

    
invited to receive laurel crown at Bologna,
100
,
252
,
254
;

    
at Mantua and Verona,
100-1
,
257
;

    
at Piacenza,
101
,
103
;

    
reputed a sorcerer,
101-3
;

    
embassy to Venice,
103
;

    
death at Ravenna,
103
;

    
age at time of his death,
103
n
.;

    
date of his death,
103
n
.,
151
;

    
burial at Ravenna,
104-5
;

    
epitaphs,
105-6
;

    
his tomb,
106-7
;

    
record of his death by Villani,
107
,
126-7
;

    
elegies by Cino da Pistoja and Giovanni Quirini,
107-8
;

    
poetical correspondence with Quirini,
107
n
.;

    
fate of his remains,
109-18
;

    
attempts by Florentines to get possession of them,
112-15
;

    
proposed monument to, in Duomo at Florence,
112
;

    
offer of Michel
Angelo to design and execute tomb,
113
;

    
disappearance of remains,
113-14
,
117
;

    
rediscovery of them,
115-17
;

    
reburial,
118
;

    
characteristics of Dante,
119-57
;

    
description of, by Boccaccio,
119-26
;

    
anecdotes of, by Boccaccio,
120
,
121-3
,
124-5
;

    
his abstemiousness,
120
;

    
taciturnity,
121
;

    
eloquence,
121
;

    
fondness for music and poetry,
121
,
123
;

    
delight in solitude,
121
;

    
absorption in studies,
121-2
;

    
marvellous memory,
122-3
;

    
greedy of honour and glory,
123-4
;

    
scornful disposition,
124
;

    
high conceit of himself,
124-5
;

    
fortitude in adversity,
125
;

    
political animosity,
125
;

    
alleged lustfulness,
126
;

    
description of, by Villani,
126-7
;

    
portraits of,
128-43
;

    
Norton on,
128-40
;

    
portrait by Giotto,
128-35
,
139-40
,
141
;

    
death-mask of,
135-40
;

    
statue in Santa Croce,
137
n
.;

    
his beard,
138
n
.;

    
Naples bronze bust,
141
;

    
portrait by Taddeo Gaddi,
141
;

    
the Riccardi portrait,
142
;

    
picture by Domenico di Michelino,
143
;

    
picture by Andrea del Castagno,
143
n
.;

    
anecdotes of,
144-57
;

    
by Petrarch,
144-5
;

    
by Michele Savonarola,
145
;

    
by Gower,
145-6
;

    
by Anonimo Fiorentino,
146-7
;

    
by Sacchetti,
147-50
;

    
by Sercambi,
152-4
;

    
by Poggio Fiorentino,
154-5
;

    
by Sir John Harington,
155
;

    
by Edward Wright,
156
;

    
by Isaac D'Israeli,
156-7
;

    
Italian works of,
158-230
;

    
Canzoniere
,
158-60
;

    
Vita Nuova
,
160-73
;

    
Convivio
,
173-92
;

    
Divina Commedia
,
193-230
;

    
Latin works,
231-59
;

    
De Monarchia,
231-9
;

    
De Vulgari Eloquentia
,
239-46
;

    
Latin Letters
,
246-52
;

    
Latin Eclogues
,
252-6
;

    
Quaestio de Aqua et Terra
,
256-9
;

    
Apocryphal Works,
259-61
;