Pro meritis cuicumque suis ..."
he abandoned it; for he conceived it was a vain thing to put crusts of bread into the mouths of such as were still sucking milk; wherefore he began his work again in style suited to modern tastes, and followed it up in the vernacular." He adds that Dante, "as some maintain," dedicated the Inferno to Uguccione della Faggiuola, the Purgatorio to Marquis Moruello Malespina, and the Paradiso to Frederic third King of Sicily; but as others assert, the whole poem was dedicated to Messer Cane della Scala. He does not resolve the question.
[594] Cf. Dr. Moore, op. cit.
[595] Cf. Paget Toynbee, Life of Dante (Methuen, 1904), pp. 130 and 147.
[596] Cf. Comento, ed. cit., Lez. 2, Vol. I, p. 104.
[597] Cf. Comento, ed. cit., Lez. 33, Vol. II, p. 129.
[598] He tells us this in the Comento as well as in the Vita, where he gives certain facts as "as others to whom his desire was known declare" (Wicksteed, op. cit., p. 18).
[599] Cf. supra, [p. 257, n. 1.]
[600] Cf. Macri Leone, op. cit., cap. ix., who describes twenty-two in Italy.
[601] The Compendio has been printed four times—first in 1809 in Milan, before the Divine of Comedy as published by Luigi Mussi.