Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . poem was in thevulgar tongue he explained that he first chose Latin, ^ but threw aside that deUcate lyre and attuned another morebefitting the ear of moderns. From the lyunigiana he probably went to the Casentino—where his friends the Conti Guidi^had various castles—andshortly afterwards (1309-1310) was probably at Paris, ^ andpossibly in the Netherlands; nay, it has eve
Italy from Dante to Tasso (1300-1600) : its political history as viewed from the standpoints of the chief cities, with descriptions of important episodes and personalities and of the art and literature of the three centuries . poem was in thevulgar tongue he explained that he first chose Latin, ^ but threw aside that deUcate lyre and attuned another morebefitting the ear of moderns. From the lyunigiana he probably went to the Casentino—where his friends the Conti Guidi^had various castles—andshortly afterwards (1309-1310) was probably at Paris, ^ andpossibly in the Netherlands; nay, it has even been asserted 1 The (very poor) T/atin hexameters cited by Frate Ilario as Dantes firstattempt may be found in Boccaccios Life of Dante. 2 His mention of the Rue du Fouarre {Par. x, 137) apparently corro-borates this assertion (cf. Purg. xi, 81 ; xx, 52). The picture of the Flemishdykes near Bruges [Inf. xv, 4) seems painted from nature. It seems hardlyprobable that he visited Avignon—the den of the papal Simoniac whom hehad lately condenmed to Malebolge—but the vivid picture that he gives usof the wondrous cemetery of Aries, with its innumerable sarcophagi, mustsurely be from the original {Inf. ix, 112). 142. LITERATURE (1300-1400) that he came to England and—studied theology at Oxford !He seems to have been still in France when the report reachedhim of the intended descent of Henry of lytixemburg. Atthis news he hurried, I think, back to Italy, and was probablypresent at Milan when Henry received the Iron Crown, andsoon afterwards returned to the Casentino; for it was subfonte Sarni, probably from the castle of the Guidi atRomena or at Poppi, not far from the source of the Arno (norfar from Camaldoli and La Verna—^places so sacred to WhiteBenedictines and to Franciscans—and close to the battlefieldof Campaldino, where Dante himself had fought as a youngman), that he indited his furious tirade against the Florentinesand his extravagant epistle to Henry. ^
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