[20] Paradiso, xxv. 7. Girol. Benivieni, Cantico in laude di Dante Alighieri, in Works, Venice 1522. Cf. Bandini, ii. 134-136. The latter part of the poem, from the line ‘La patria, che a me madre, a Te noverca,’ refers to the above-quoted lines of Dante. The restoration of citizen rights to the poet’s great-great-grandson, who bore his name, and who was a friend of Poliziano (Letter to Lorenzo, Flor. June 5, 1490, in the Prose volgari, &c., p. 76), did not take place till 1496, and was paid for! (Gaye, l. c. p. 584.)
[21] Isidoro del Lungo, Un documento Dantesco, Arch. Stor. Ital., series iii. vol. xix. p. 4.
[22] Vespasiano da Bisticci, l. c. p. 499 seq. Palmieri’s Latin biography of the grand seneschal was translated into Italian by a relative of the latter, Donato Acciaiuolo.
[23] On the Giostra, see above, i. 264 seq., and Salvator Bongi’s oft-mentioned edition of the Lettere di Luigi Pulci. A new edition of Ciriffo Calvaneo, with full bibliographical references by S. L. G. Audin, appeared at Florence in 1834.
[24] L. Ranke’s academical treatise, Zur Geschichte der italienischen Poesie, Berlin, 1837, contains an excellent account of the elements and the development of the romantic epopee. The last edition of Morgante, which was first printed at Venice in 1481 and at Florence in the following year (Gamba, Testi di Lingua, p. 241 seq.) is that by P. Sermolli, published at Florence a few years ago. The oldest impression of the Reali di Francia is that published at Modena in 1491, ten years after Pulci’s poem.
[25] L. Pulci, Lettere, p. 38. Cf. supra, i. 313.
[26] February 1, 1468. L. Pulci, Lettere, p. 8.
[27] A petition of his widow, July 14, 1485, states that he had been dead more than eight months. Cf. Lettere, pp. 10, 102, 114.
[28] Fabroni, l. c. ii. 98.
[29] Isidoro del Lungo, La patria e gli antenati d’Angelo Poliziano in Arch. Stor. Ital., series iii. vol. xi. p. 9 seq. Id. Uno Scolare dello studio fiorentino nel sec. XV, in the Nuova Antologia, x. 215, seq. Fr. Otto Mencke’s Historia Vitæ, etc. Ang. Pol., Leipzig, 1736, will always be valuable as a careful collection of literary and critical materials. Opera Ang. Politiani, Flor. 1499. Le Stanze, l’Orfeo e le Rime di Messer Ang. Ambrogini Pol., illustrate da Giosuè Carducci, Flor. 1863. Prose volgari e Poesie latine e greche di A. A. P. raccolte da Isidoro del Lungo, Flor. 1867.