Dante Alighieri, his life and works . the Florentine reckoning, in the same year as, thegreat victory of Charles of Anjou over King Manfred atBenevento, which ruined the Ghibelline cause, and oncemore restored the Guelf supremacy in Florence andthroughout Tuscany. Dantes family were Guelfs.* This See Genealogical Table at end of volume (Appendix A). 2 From the reference in Paradiso, xxii. no ff. it follows that Dantemust have been born towards the end of the month, at any rate later thanthe 2ist (see Casini, in loc). 5 The battle of Benevento, according to our reckoning, was fought on26 Februa
Dante Alighieri, his life and works . the Florentine reckoning, in the same year as, thegreat victory of Charles of Anjou over King Manfred atBenevento, which ruined the Ghibelline cause, and oncemore restored the Guelf supremacy in Florence andthroughout Tuscany. Dantes family were Guelfs.* This See Genealogical Table at end of volume (Appendix A). 2 From the reference in Paradiso, xxii. no ff. it follows that Dantemust have been born towards the end of the month, at any rate later thanthe 2ist (see Casini, in loc). 5 The battle of Benevento, according to our reckoning, was fought on26 February, 1266; but as the Florentine year began on 25 March, ac-cording to their reckoning it was fought on 26 February, 1265. The dateaccording to both styles is indicated by writing 26 February, I26f, wherethe lower figure represents the modern, and the upper figure the old, methodof reckoning. ^ It may be noted that Dantes intimacies were for the most part amongthe Guelfs : his mentor, Brunetto Latino, was a Guelf; his friend, Guido 36. DANTES HOUSE IN FLORENCE ANCESTRY OF DANTE 37 he himself tells us in the Divina Commedia, in his ac-count of his conversation with the Ghibelline Farinatadegli Uberti in Hell. Dante having answered Farinatasquestion as to who were his forefathers, Farinata says:They were fierce foes of me and of my fathers and ofmy party, so that twice we scattered them ( in 1248and 1260). To which Dante retorts: If my side weredriven out twice from Florence both times they returned( in 1251 and 1266), which your side have not beenable to do } Dantes father, whose name was Alighiero, lived in thequarter of San Martino del Vescovo ; ^ he was the son ofBellincione degli Alighieri, and was descended, as is sup-posed, from the ancient and noble family of the Elisei,who lived in the Sesto di Porta San Piero in goes so far as to trace Dantes descent from thenoble Frangipani family of Rome, but of this connection Cavalcanti, was a Guelf; his wi
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