Purgatorio, vii. 121.
After relating the dread story of the Conte Ugolino, Chaucer refers to Dante, from whom perhaps he derived it. (Conf. Inferno, xxxiii.)
"Who so wol here it in a longer wise,
Redeth the grete poete of Itaille,
That highte Dante, for he can it devise
Fro point to point, not o word wol he faille."
The Monkes Tale, 14,769.
"Bet than Vergile, while he was on live,
Or Dant also."—The Freres Tale, 7101.
The following lines refer to the Inferno, xiii. 64.: