This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...in Alessandro of Romena, of the old Ghibelline family of the Counts Guidi. Dante The letter, ascribed to Dante, addressed to Alexander's nephews upon his death about 1308, is pretty certainly had been chosen as one of a Council of Twelve who acted as his assessors, and had thus been brought into close contact with him. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 Excerpt: ...in Alessandro of Romena, of the old Ghibelline family of the Counts Guidi. Dante The letter, ascribed to Dante, addressed to Alexander's nephews upon his death about 1308, is pretty certainly had been chosen as one of a Council of Twelve who acted as his assessors, and had thus been brought into close contact with him. Under his guidance they turned to Arezzo, as an old Ghibelline city, where Uguccione della Faggiuola was in office as Podesta. For the present, however, he was halting between two opinions, expecting a cardinal's hat for his nephew; and the exiles finding but a cold reception there, sought Forli as a refuge. That city was under Scarpetta degli Ordelaffi as a Papal vicar, and his action was significant of the altered policy of Boniface, of the widening rift between him and the French king, of which I have already spoken as probably the result of Dante's diplomacy. He placed himself, strange to say, at the head of the Bianchi exiles. Pistoia, Pisa, Bologna were ready to help them. By his advice they sent an embassy, of which Dante was one, to Bartolommeo della Scala, lord of Verona, who had succeeded his father Albert in 1301. To that spurious. For one thing, Alexander of Romena, Palatine of Tuscany, was alive in 1316, and no other of the name is recorded in that generation. mission to the "gran Lombardo" we may refer the gratitude to that illustrious house expressed in Par. xvii. 71; the hopes formed by the poet, with his singular insight into boy life and character, of the youngest brother of the house, then but twelve years old--Francesco, better known as the "Can Grande" of the Ghibelline hopes (note-on H. i. 101); his acquaintance with the local customs of Verona, its naked races (H. xv. 122) and wrestlings (H. xvi. 22)...
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