[91] _De divinatione per somnum_ ii. (464ᵃ 33) οἱ δὲ μελαγχολικοὶ διὰ τὸ σφόδρα, ὥσπερ βάλλοντες πόρρωθεν, εὔστοχοί εἰσιν. _Cf._ _Eth. Nic._ vi. 10 (1142ᵇ 2), where εὐστοχία is distinguished from βούλευσις as “swift and wordless”; ἄνευ τε γὰρ λόγου καὶ ταχύ τι ἡ εὐστοχία. And a little further on it is said that ἀγχίνοια—“ready wit,” “shrewdness,” is a kind of εὐστοχία. [92] _Rhet._ iii. II, 1412ᵃ. εὐστοχία sees analogies, like Archytas, who says “a διαιτητὴς is like an altar”—for to both the injured flee! [93] _Eth. Eud._ vii. 5, 1240ᵃ 2. [94] _Cf._ Ps. cxv. 4-8. Esp. Isaiah xliv. and xlvi. [95] A recent writer, H. McLachlan (_St. Luke, the Man and his Work_, Manchester Univ. Press, 1920), has drawn attention to the humorous gift of the third Evangelist, and entitles one of his chapters “Luke the Humorist.” See also the present writer’s _St. Luke_ (Westminster Commentaries, Methuen, 1922, Introduction, pp. xxix. _sq._). [96] _Cronica Fratris Salimbene de Adam_ (Ed. Holder-Egger, Hanover, 1905-1913), pp. 77 _sqq._ “Florentini ... trufatores maximi sunt.” [97] _Rhet._ ii. 1389ᵇ 10. οἰ νέοι ... φιλογέλωτες, διὸ καὶ εὐτράπελοι; ἡ γὰρ εὐτραπελία πεπαιδευμένη ὕβρις ἐστίν. [98] _Purg._ x. 130-3. [99] Nino Tammassia, _S. Francesco d’ Assisi e la sua Leggenda_, Padova, Drucker, 1906. (Eng. Tr. Fisher Unwin, 1910). [100] D. G. Rossetti, _The Early Italian Poets, etc._ [101] _Purg._ xxiii. 115 _sqq._ [102] _Op. cit._ pp. 55-6. [103] _Conv._ III, viii. 70; Oxf., p. 282; Bemporad, p. 222. [104] _Portraits of Dante from Giotto to Raffael: a critical study, with a concise iconography_, by Richard Thayer Holbrook. London: Philip Lee Warner, 1911. [105] Holbrook, _l.c._ pp. 68-72. [106] Holbrook, _op. cit._ p. 102 and illustration opposite p. 98. [107] _Vita_, § 8. Ne’ costumi domestici e publici mirabilmente fu ordinato e composto, e in tutti più che un altro cortese e civile. [108] _Hist._ ix. 136. Per lo suo sapere fu alquanto presuntuoso e schifo e isdegnoso, e quasi a guisa di filosofo mal grazioso. Non bene sapea conversare co’ laici. [109] _Cf._ Toynbee, _Dante Alighieri_, Methuen, 3rd ed., 1904, p. 176 _sqq._ [110] This is quoted from C. Bruni’s excellent _Guida al Casentino_, p. 167. B. does not specify his authorities, but says in a footnote: “Questo aneddoto è così riferito da varii scrittori danteschi.” [111] _Dante and His Italy_, pp. 141, 2. [112] _Inf._ xxii. 118. [113] _Inf._ xxiii, 4 _sqq._ [114] Sannia not inappropriately describes this passage as “il comico populare della D.C.” (p. 193). [115] _Inf._ xxii. 25. [116] _Inf._ xxii. 41, 57, 60, 72, _cf._ xxi. 55 _sqq._ [117] _Inf._ xxi. 7-15. [118] _Inf._ xxii. 130. [119] _Inf._ xxiii. 37. [120] _Inf._ xxi. 31, 88 _sqq._, 127 _sqq._; xxii. 31. [121] _Inf._ xxx. 103. [122] _Inf._ xxx. 131, 2. [123] _Inf._ xiii. 120 _sqq._ [124] _Inf._ xix. 52 _sqq._ _Cf._ Boccaccio, _Vita_, § 17. [125] _Inf._ xix. 72. [126] _Purg._ vi. 149 _sqq._ [127] _Purg._ vi. 141.