[324] _Ib._ p. 161. [325] _Ib._ p. 172. [326] _Bulletino della Società dantesca italiana_, Nov. Ser., fasc. 4, (Dec., 1919), pp. 163-181. [327] See above, p. 131, note 4. [328] _Bulletino_ _ut supra_, p. 166. [329] _Bulletino_ _ut supra_, esp. p. 181. Ma il meglio sarà contentarsi di meditare sull’ affinità delle menti umane e sulla verosimiglianza che cause simili producano, in luoghi diversi, effetti non troppo dissimili. [330] Dr. Parodi’s view would probably be like that of Gherardo de’ Rossi about the vision of Alberic, which he quotes on p. 163: that the _Miradj_ “possa aver all’ Omero italiano suggerito l’ idea della _Commedia_ come un pezzo di marmo potrebbe somministrare ad uno scultore l’ idea d’ una statua.” [331] _Inf._ iv. 129, 143-4. [332] _Par._ x. 136-8. [333] _Par._ xxv. 2. [334] _Ep._ x. (Oxford Ed.), xiii. (Bemporad), 87 _sqq._ See Sir T. W. Arnold, “Dante and Islam,” _Contemp. Review_, Aug., 1921, to which the present writer owes most of the substance of this paragraph and what follows. [335] Arnold, p. 205-6. [336] _Ib._ p. 206-7. [337] _Conv._ I, iii.; Oxf. Ed., p. 240; Bemporad, p. 151 _sq._ [338] _Purg._ xiv. 16 _sqq._ [339] _Inf._ xxx. 64 _sqq._ [340] _Purg._ xiv. 46 _sqq._ [341] _Villani_, v. 37. [342] _Inf._ xvi. 37. [343] _Purg._ xiv. 43. [344] _Inf._ x. 85. [345] _Par._ xi. 106. [346] _Vill._ vii. 131; _Dino_, i. 9. [347] Leonardo Bruni Vita di Dante. Dove mi trovai non fanciullo nelle armi, e dove ebbi temenza molta.... [348] _Inf._ xxx. 37 _sqq._ Perhaps of English extraction: in a document at Ravenna he is described as “de Anglia.” [349] _Inf._ iv. 106 _sqq._ [350] _Inf._ iv. 48. [351] _Inf._ iv. 42. [352] _Inf._ iv. 118. [353] _Inf._ xxx. 78. [354] It is strange to find even in so recent a work as Mr. Tozer’s Prose Translation of the _Divine Comedy_, reference still made to the fountain of the name in _Siena_. The context is all in favour of a spring near Romena. [355] _Dino_, i. 10. [356] _Sacchetti_, Nov. clxxix. [357] _Purg._ v. 116 _sqq._ [358] _Villani_, vii. 130-131. [359] _Villani_, vii. 13-14. [360] _Purg._ v. 85-129. [361] _Purg._ v. 97 _sqq._ [362] _Par._ xxii. 49. [363] _Purg._ v. 126 _sq._ [364] Fioretti: Prima considerazione delle sacre sante stimate. [365] _Par._ xi. 107-8. [366] Fioretti: seconda considerazione. [367] _Inf._ xii. 1-45. [368] _Fioretti_: _loc. cit._ [369] _loc. cit._ [370] _Ex._ xxxiii. 11. [371] Buti, on _Inf._ xvi. 106. _Purg._ xxx. 42. [372] _Inf._ xvi. 106. For further “Franciscan” references see Paget Toynbee, _Life of Dante_ (last Ed.) p. 72 n. [373] _Federzoni_, _Vita di Beatrice Portinari_, 2nd Ed., p. 14. [374] _Purg._ xxx. 41 _sq._ [375] _Par._ xi. 106-108. [376] Vol. II, p. 18, (Sept., 1918). _Tasso and Shakespeare’s England._ [377] _Inf._ i. 104 _sqq._ _Inf._ ix. 133 _sqq._ and xx. 59 _sqq._ (See above, pp. 13 _sq._)