Dante Alighieri, his life and works . ractions forDante,^nd in which, as we have already seen,^ he was tosome extent a proficientj A few details of Dantes public life in Florence havebeen preserved in various documents in the Florentinearchives.^ It is recorded * that on 6 July, 1295, he gavehis opinion in favour of certain proposed modifications ofthe Ordinamenti di Giustizia, ordinances against thepower of the nobles in Florence, which had been enacteda couple of years before. On 14 December of the sameyear he took part in the bi-monthly election of Priors; andon 5 June, 1296, he spoke in th
Dante Alighieri, his life and works . ractions forDante,^nd in which, as we have already seen,^ he was tosome extent a proficientj A few details of Dantes public life in Florence havebeen preserved in various documents in the Florentinearchives.^ It is recorded * that on 6 July, 1295, he gavehis opinion in favour of certain proposed modifications ofthe Ordinamenti di Giustizia, ordinances against thepower of the nobles in Florence, which had been enacteda couple of years before. On 14 December of the sameyear he took part in the bi-monthly election of Priors; andon 5 June, 1296, he spoke in the Council of the Hundred ^See Fraticelli, Vita di Dante, pp. 112-13. See above, p. 65. ^ See D Ancona e Bacci, Manuals delta Letteratura Italiana, I. 185 fif, * Or supposed to be recorded, for M. Barbi has shown that the . .herii in the torn document, hitherto conjectured to represent Dante Alag-herii, must almost certainly refer to some other Alighieri (see Bulletfinodella Societd Dantesca Italiana, (1899), vi, 225 iT., 237).. PUBLIC LIFE 73 ( Consiglio dei Cento ). In the spring of 1300 he wentas ambassador to San Gemignano, a town about ten milesfrom Siena, to announce that an assembly was to be heldfor the purpose of electing a new captain of the GuelfLeague of Tuscany, and to invite the citizens of SanGemignano to send representatives. The room in thePalazzo of San Gemignano, where Dante was received asambassador to Florence, and where he spoke in dischargeof his office six hundred years ago, is still preserved inmuch the same condition in which it was on that occasion. The contemporary record 1 of the event, which, like allsimilar records of that time, is in Latin, tells how on8 May the General Council of the commonwealth andpeople of San Gemignano having been convoked andassembled in the palace of the said commonwealth by thesounding of a bell and by the voice of the crier, accordingto custom, at the summons of the noble and valiant knight,Messer Mino de Tolomei of
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