[52] Ibid., Lib. IX, cap. 56.
[53] Cf. De Blasiis, op. cit.
[54] See Crowe and Cavalcaselle, ed. E. Hutton (Dent, 1908), Vol. I, p. 26.
[55] The picture, of life size, is still at Naples in S. Lorenzo Maggiore. Schulz, Denkmäler der Kunst des Mittelalters in Unteritalien, Vol. III, p. 165, publishes a document dated 13 July, 1317, by which King Robert grants Simone Martini a pension of twenty gold florins.
[56] It is perhaps not altogether unlikely that for a boy the port and Dogana would have extraordinary attractions. At any rate, Boccaccio in the tenth novel of the eighth day of the Decameron describes the ways of "maritime countries that have ports," how that "all merchants arriving there with merchandise would on discharging bring all their goods into a warehouse, called in many places 'Dogana'...."
[57] Lib. XV, 10: "Sex annis nil aliud feci quam non recuperabile tempus in vacuum terere." Note these six years, they will be valuable to us when we come to decide as to the year in which he first met Fiammetta, and thus to fix the date of his advent to Naples. See [Appendix I].
[58] "Laddove essi del tutto ignoranti, niuna cosa più oltre sanno, che quanti passi ha dal fondaco, o dalla bottega alla lor casa; e par loro ogni uomo, che di ciò egli volesse sgannare, aver vinto e confuso quando dicono: all' uscio mi si pare, quasi in niun' altra cosa stia il sapere, se non o in ingannare o in guadagnare." Corbaccio in Opere Minori (Milano, 1879), p. 277. Cf. Egloga xiii., where the same sentiments are expressed.
[59] Lib. XV, cap. x.
[60] Cf. Della Torre, op. cit., pp. 109-11.
[61] Cf. Filocolo, ed. cit., Lib. IV, p. 244 et seq.