Mobile | |(Thur.) | | 13-15. and | | | | Empyrean | | | | Summary. _Arguments for 1300 or 1301._ _From Expressions and Incidents in the D.C._ Malacoda. | Inconclusive: method of reckoning uncertain. _Inf._ xxi. 112-114.| | “Nel mezzo del | Inconclusive: a precise year possibly not cammin.” | indicated, and date of Dante’s birth not _Inf._ i. 1. | certainly known. | Casella. | Inconclusive: may refer to Bull of 1299, _Purg._ ii. 98-99. | but possibly of 1300. | Can Grande. | For 1300: Can Grande 9 years old in _Par._ xvii. 80, 81.| March 1300. | Cunizza. | For 1300: “questo centesim’ anno” can only _Par._ ix. 40. | mean 1300. | Nino’s widow. | Inconclusive: might put off widow’s weeds _Purg._ viii. 74. | before re-marriage. | Guido Cavalcanti. | For 1300: Guido, Dante’s intimate friend, _Inf._ x. 111. | died in August 1300. The Astronomical Data. (_True Equinox, March 12. Ecclesiastical, March 21. Traditional, March 25_). _In D.C. | On Good Friday, 1300. | On March 25, 1301._ | | SUN near |Day assumed to fall soon after|Date of traditional EQUINOX. | equinox (actually April 8.) | equinox (13 days | | after true | | equinox). | | MOON full on |Assumed full, since Easter |Full. first day. | associated with equinox and | | full moon. (Actually full | | March 5, and April 4.) | | | VENUS in Pisces |Supposed in Pisces from error |Entered Pisces on 4th day. | in contemporary almanac, | March 27. | confounding 1301 with 1300. | | | SATURN “on the |In forepart of Leo, |In Leo, 21st degree Lion’s breast.”| 8th degree of the sign. | of the sign, | | close to Regulus. | | MARS possibly |Not near Leo. |In Leo. intended to be | | in Leo. | | Early commentators understand Good Friday, not March 25. _VII. THEORETICAL AND SPECULATIVE ASTRONOMY._