ncorrect; the dates of the three
decrees against Dante are A.D. 1302, 1314, and 1316.

[603] {495} So relates Ficino, but some think his coronation only an
allegory. See _Storia, etc., ut sup._, p. 453.

[604] By Varchi, in his _Ercolano_. The controversy continued from 1570
to 1616. See _Storia, etc._, edit. Rome, 1785, tom, vii. lib. iii. par.
iii. p. 187.

[605] {496} Gio Jacopo Dionisi _Canonico di Verona_. Serie di Aneddoti,
n. 2. See _Storia, etc._, edit. Venice, 1795, tom. v. lib. i. par. i. p.
24, note.

[606] "Vitam Literni egit sine desiderio urbis." See T. Liv., _Hist._,
lib. xxxviii. cap. liii. Livy reports that some said he was buried at
Liternum, others at Rome. _Ibid._, cap. lv.

[607] _Trionfo della Castita_, _Opera_ Petrarchae, Basil, 1554, i. _s.f._

[608] {497} See Note 6, p. 476.

[609] The Greek boasted that he was [Greek: i)so/nomos]. See the last
chapter of the first book of Dionysius of Halicarnassus.

[610] {498} "E intorno _alla magnifica risposta_," etc. Serassi, _Vita
del Tasso_, lib. iii. p. 149, tom. ii. edit. 2. Bergamo.

[611] {499} "Accingiti innoltre, se ci e lecito ancor l'esortarti, a
compire l'immortal tua Africa ... Se ti avviene d'incontrare nel nostro
stile cosa che ti dispiaccia, cio debb' essere un altro motive ad
esaudire i desiderj della tua patria." _Storia della Lett. Ital._, edit.
Venice, 1795, tom. v. par. i. lib. i. p. 75.

[612] {500} _Classical Tour_, chap. ix. vol. iii. p. 355, edit. 3rd. "Of
Boccaccio, the modern Petronius, we say nothing; the abuse of genius is
more odious and more contemptible than its absence, and it imports
little where the impure remains of a licentious author are consigned to
their kindred dust. For the same reason the traveller may pass unnoticed
the tomb of the malignant _Aretino_." This dubious phrase is hardly
enough to save the tourist from the suspicion of another blunder
respecting the burial-place of Aretine, whose tomb was in the church of
St. Luke at Venice, and gave rise to the famous controversy of which
some notice is taken in Bayle. Now the words of Mr. Eustace would lead
us to think the tomb was at Florence, or at least was to be somewhere
recognised. Whether the inscription so much disputed was ever written on
the tomb cannot now be decided, for all memorial of this author has
disappeared from the church of St. Luke.

[613] {501} "Non enim ubique est, qui in excusationem meam consurgens
dicat: juvenis scripsit, & maj