[241] Ibid., part v. liv. et seq. The same idea is to be found in the Teseide and the Fiammetta. It is more than worth while comparing these passages.

[242] Ibid., part v. xxxiv.-xlii.

[243] Filostrato, ed. cit., part vii. ott. vi., xi., xvi., xxxii.-xxxiii. pp. 208, 210, 212, 217.

[244] Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida, V, 3.

[245] Filostrato, ed. cit., part viii. xii.-xvi. pp. 247-8.

[246] Ibid., part viii. xxvii.

[247] Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Book V, st. 258.

[248] Filostrato, ed. cit., part vi. ott. xxxiii. p. 205.

[249] Filostrato, ed. cit., p. vi, ott. xxix. p. 204.

[250] Cf. e.g. Filostrato, ed. cit., p. iii. ott. i. p. 80, with Paradiso, i. 13-27; or Filostrato, ed. cit., p. viii. ott. xvii. p. 249, with Purgatorio, vi. 118-20. There are, however, very many Dantesque passages. See infra, p. 253 et seq.