[309] Inf. i. 47; Barn. 62ᵇ.
[310] 85ᵇ and 87ᵃ.
[311] A little earlier (76ᵇ) he has what seems to be a quotation from memory of Lev. xxvi. 11, 12; the Law of the Jubilee is to be found, of course, in the chapter immediately preceding.
[312] Antiquorum habet (Coqueline, iii. 94).
[313] E.g. Cron. Astense (Muratori, R. S. I., tom. xi. p. 192): Jacobus Cardinalis (in Raynald, tom. iv. sub an. 1300): Villani, viii. 36.
[314] Another point that might have been adduced is the counsel “habbandonare il perchè,” Barn. 95ᵇ; cf. Purg. iii. 37.
[315] Inf. iv. 67 sqq. Here, standing apart, but near the heroes and heroines of ancient Rome, Dante places the Moslem champion Saladin (ib. 129).
[316] Inf. xxviii. 35.
[317] Prof. N. Tamassia, S. Francesco d’ Assisi e la sua Leggenda, p. 88.
[318] Including (38ᵇ) a striking statement of the impossibility of penitence (and therefore of absolution) to one meditating fresh sin: cf. Dante, Inf. xxvii. 118 sq.