[34] Inf. c. 3, 60.
[35] Pelli, Memorie per servire alla vita di Dante. Fir. 1823, pp. 105, 106.
[36] See Dr. Barlow's Sixth Centenary Festivals of Dante. (1866.)
[37] These notices have been carefully collected by Pelli, who seems to have left little to glean (Memorie, &c. Ed. 2da, 1823). A few additions have been made by Gerini (Mem. Stor. della Lunigiana), and Troya (Veltro Allegorico), but they are not of much importance. Arrivabene (Secolo di Dante) has brought together a mass of illustration which is very useful, and would be more so, if he were more careful, and quoted his authorities. Balbo arranges these materials with sense and good feeling; though, as a writer, he is below his subject. A few traits and anecdotes may be found in the novelists—as Sacchetti.
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A death-like shade— Like that beneath black boughs and foliage green O'er the cool streams in Alpine glens display'd.—Wright. |
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O'er all the sandy desert falling slow, Were shower'd dilated flakes of fire, like snow On Alpine summits, when the wind is low.—Ibid. |
[40] Inf. 31, 18.
[41] Ibid. 17, 16, 31; Purg. 24; Par. 2; Inf. 22; Purg. 30; Par. 25; Inf. 7.