INDEX OF NAMES

(See also Tables of Hell, Purgatory, Paradise, and Bibliographical Appendix)

Alighieri, Dante, on the “Sicilian” poetry, 4, 5;

birth and family, 6, 7;

boyhood, 9, 10;

biographers, 11;

first love, 12, 13;

youth and friends, 14, 15;

probable visit to Bologna and military service, 15, 18, 19;

loss of Beatrice, 20;

philosophic devotion, 20;

moral aberrations, 21;

friendship with Forese Donati, 22, and with Betto Brunelleschi, 22;

supposed loves, 22, 23;

marriage, children, and debts, 23, 24;

first steps in political life, 25-27;

embassy to San Gemignano, 27;

possible visit to Rome, 29;

Priorate, 31;

subsequent political acts, 32-34;

embassy to the Pope, 34-35;

accusations and sentences against him, 36-38;

his undoubted innocence, 38;

first period of exile, 39-40;

at Gargonza and San Godenzo, 40;

breaks with the Bianchi, 41;

goes to Verona, 43;

probably at Bologna, 43;

possibly at Padua, 44;

in Lunigiana and the Casentino, 44, 45;

writes to the Florentine people, 45, 46;

possibly at Paris, 46, 47;

in the advent of Henry of Luxemburg, 48, 49;

letters and fresh sentence, 50, 51;

probably at Pisa, 52;

does not accompany the Emperor against Florence, 53;

renewed wanderings, 53;

admonishes the Italian cardinals, 54;

at Lucca, 55;

rejection of amnesty, 55;

new condemnation to death, 56;

at Verona, 57;

at Ravenna, 58, 59;

probable visit to Mantua and Verona, 58;

last days at Ravenna, 59;

his embassy to Venice, 59;

his death, 60;

his works, 61-63;

publication and diffusion of the Commedia, 64;

his commentators, 64, 65;

influence of Guido Guinizelli, 67, 68;

the Vita Nuova, 10-14, 20, 61, 67-81, 82-86, 88, 96, 98, 99, 111, 120, 181, 201;

the Rime or Canzoniere, 15, 21, 22, 35, 38, 45, 62, 82-93, 96-98, 104, 107, 108, 122, 127;

the Convivio, 10, 20, 38, 39, 45, 48, 61, 62, 70, 72, 80, 81, 82, 85-88, 94-101, 102, 108, 114, 117n., 146, 155, 166, 167, 184, 192, 194, 195, 214;

De Vulgari Eloquentia, 4, 5, 21, 36, 38, 44, 62, 63, 81, 87, 88, 90-92, 102-109, 128, 152, 181;

the Monarchia, 62, 109-120, 142, 147, 167, 184, 189, 208, 210;

the Letters, 15, 19, 32, 46, 47-52, 53-55, 62, 110, 120-127, 147;

the Epistle to Can Grande, 58, 62, 127, 129, 136, 146, 167, 194;

the Eclogues, 59, 63, 128, 130-134, 144;

the Quaestio de Aqua et Terra, 58, 63, 134-135;

the Divina Commedia, its completion, 59, 60, 62-64;

publication and diffusion, 64, 65;

earliest commentators, 64;

language, 106;

ethical and mystical, 128, 129;

letter and allegory, 136-138;

title, 137;

metrical structure, 106, 138-139;

sources, 139-141;

symbolism of Virgil and Beatrice, 141-143;

date of composition, 143-145;

time, 145;

Inferno, 146-164;

Purgatorio, 164-192;

Paradiso, 192-221

Abati, Bocca degli, 161

—— Durante degli, 10, 24

Acquasparta, Cardinal Matteo da, 32-33, 36

Adam, 103, 191, 214, 219

Adam of Brescia, 160

Adimari (Florentine family), 23

Adolph of Nassau, 100

Adrian IV., Pope, 110

—— V., Pope, 178

Aeneas, 114, 147, 155, 169, 208

Agostino, 205

Aguglione, Baldo da, 51

Alberigo, Frate 144, 161

Albert of Austria, 30, 48, 100

Albertus Magnus, 1, 95, 141, 205

Aldobrandesco, Omberto, 173

Alexander the Great, 115

Alighieri, family, 6, 25

—— Alighiero di Bellincione (Dante’s father), 6, 9, 14

—— Antonia, 23n., 60n.

—— Beatrice, 23n., 60n.

—— Bella, 10

—— Brunetto di Bellincione, 7

—— Francesco, 10

—— Geri del Bello, 7

—— Giovanni, 23n.

—— Gemma Donati, 23, 58, 60n., 127, 132

—— Jacopo di Dante, 23, 56, 58, 60n., 64

—— Lapa Cialuffi, 10

—— Pietro di Dante, 12, 23, 56, 58, 60n., 64, 127.

—— Tana, 10

Alighiero (son of Cacciaguida), 7

Altoviti, Palmieri, 32, 36, 37, 52

Anastasius, Pope, 155

Anchises, 169, 208

Anne, St., 219

Anselm, St., 206

Antaeus, 161

Aquinas, St. Thomas, 1, 5, 80, 141, 150, 151, 152, 155, 172, 192, 205, 206

Argenti, Filippo, 154

Ariosto, 140

Aristotle, 1, 14, 39, 80, 89, 95, 97, 100, 141, 150, 152, 176, 214, 215

Arnaut, Daniel, 90, 107, 182

Augustine, St., 117, 129, 141, 172, 200, 219, 220

Augustus, 109, 113, 115

Averroës, 99, 152

Beatrice, traditionally identified with Bice Portinari, 12, 13, 14;

her brother, 15, 78;

her death, 20;

Cino’s canzone on, 21;

Dante’s wanderings from her, 21;

in Dante’s work, 61, 62;

in the Vita Nuova, 69-79;

reference to her in the Convivio, 81, 84, 86, 89, 93, 98, 99, 111;

her symbolism in the Divina Commedia, 141, 142;

sends Virgil, 148;

her part in the Earthly Paradise, 187-191;

guides Dante through the spheres of Paradise, 194, 199-216;

her glory in the Empyrean, 218-220

Bambaglioli, Graziolo dei, 65, 119

Bacci, O., 60n.

Barbadoro, B., 32n.

Barbi, M., 11, 23n., 56n., 82, 83, 93n., 127

Bardi, Simone dei, 12

Bartoli, A., 11

Battifolle, Countess of, 125

Bede, St., 205

Becchi, Lippo, 36

Belacqua, 168

Bella, Giano della, 24, 25, 28

Benedict, St., 212, 219

—— IX., Pope, 43, 122

Benvenuto da Imola, 15, 44, 65, 156, 187

Bernard, St., 129, 185, 187, 197, 198, 203, 207, 209, 217-221

Bertran de Born, 107

Biagi, V., 135

Biondo, Flavio, 48, 63, 121

Biscaro, G., 133n.

Blacatz, 169

Boccaccio, 11, 12, 14, 15, 23, 26, 35, 40, 44, 46, 47, 58, 60n., 63, 65, 69, 74, 83, 101, 102, 109, 112, 118, 121, 122, 127, 130, 132, 144, 151n.

Boëthius, 20, 94, 141, 205, 217

Bonagiunta, 181

Bonaventura, St., 1, 141, 206, 213, 220

Boncompagno, 102n.

Boniface VIII., Pope, 4, 24-26, 28, 29, 32-35, 36-38, 41-42, 46, 111, 159, 179, 217

Branca d’Oria, 144

Briareus, 160

Brunelleschi, Betto, 22

Brunetto di Bellincione. See Alighieri

—— Latini, 14, 89, 97, 157

Bruni, Leonardo, 12, 14, 18, 31, 34, 40, 43, 46, 53, 63, 74, 120, 121

Brutus, 163

Buondelmonte, 6

Buoso da Duera, 161

Buti, Francesco da, 65

Cacciaguida, 6, 7, 29n., 40, 208, 209

Caccianemico, Venedico, 133n., 145

Caesar, 109

Cain, 160

Calboli, Fulcieri da, 41, 133n.

Cammino, Gherardo da, 100

Cante de’ Gabrielli, 36

Capaneus, 157

Carducci, 132

Carlo Martello, 27, 204

Casella, 15, 21, 87, 167

Cassius, 163

Cato, 114, 167

Cavalcanti, Cavalcante, 155

—— Guido, 13, 15, 28, 31, 32, 58, 68, 73, 74, 76, 85, 104, 108, 155

Celestine V., St., Pope, 24, 168

Cerberus, 153

Cerchi, Vieri dei, 19, 27, 30, 40

Charlemagne, 110, 116, 209

Charles I. of Anjou, 3, 4, 8, 15, 16, 170, 178

—— II. of Naples, 18, 27, 32, 49, 178, 204

—— of Valois, 33-36, 178

Charon, 149, 154

Chaucer, 94

Christ, 115, 116, 147, 186, 213

Ciacco, 144

Cicero, 20, 150, 155

Cimabue, 6

Cincinnatus, 114

Cino da Pistoia, 15, 21, 53, 63, 85, 91, 93, 104, 107, 108, 123

Cipolla, C., 116n.

Clement IV., Pope, 3

—— V., Pope, 46, 48, 52, 54, 116n., 126, 143, 145, 179, 217

Clemenza, 204

Colet, J. (on Dionysius), 215

Colonna, Sciarra, 41

Compagni, Dino, 25, 34, 35, 43

Conrad III., Emperor, 7

Conradin of Suabia, 9

Constance, Empress, 2, 201

Constance of Aragon, 16

Constantine, 109, 116, 210

Corazza da Signa, 34

Croce, B., 137

Curio, 124

Cyprus, King of, 210

Daniel, 120, 129

Dante. See Alighieri

Dante da Maiano, 84

David, 120, 173, 210

Della Torre, A., 56n.

Del Lungo, I, 20n., 35n., 45n.

Diedati, Gherardino, 34, 36

—— Neri, 34

Dionysius, 141, 197, 205, 207, 211, 215, 216

Dominic, St., 205

Donati, Corso, 22, 25, 27, 28, 31, 33, 46, 145, 180, 201

—— Forese, 23, 85, 180, 201

—— Foresino, 127

—— Gemma, See Alighieri

—— Manetto, 23, 24

—— Nella, 180

—— Niccolò, 127

—— Piccarda, 201

—— Teruccio, 127

—— Ubertino, 23

Donatus, Aelius, 206

D’Ovidio, F., 139n.

Durante, author of the Fiore, 63

Elisei (family), 6

Ephialtes, 160

Eve, 219

Federzoni, G., 139n.

“Fioretta,” 84

Folco, 204

Francesca da Rimini, 58, 153, 161

Francis, St., 92, 205

Frangipani, Cardinal Latino, 16

Frederick I., Emperor, 2, 49, 110

—— II., Emperor, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 48, 100, 104, 109, 155, 170, 201

—— of Aragon, 32

Gabriel, St., 203, 213, 219

Gambara, Gherardino da, 41

Gentucca, 55n.

Geryon, 158

Gherardini, Andrea, 33, 38

Gianni, Lapo, 15, 31, 85, 104

Giants, the, 160

Giotto, 6, 44, 58

Giovanna (“Primavera”), 71, 76

Giovanni del Virgilio, 56, 59, 63, 130-133

Giraut de Borneil, 92, 107

Godfrey de Bouillon, 209

Gratian, 205

Gregory I. (the Great), 99, 197

—— VII. (Hildebrand), Pope, 2, 110

—— X., Pope, 15

Griffin, the mystical, 187, 188, 190

Guarnerio, P. E., 139n.

Guidi, the Conti, 51, 125

Guido, Fra, of Pisa, 64, 127

—— Novello da Polenta, 58, 59, 64, 132

—— Novello (dei Conti Guidi), 8

—— del Duca, 174

Guinizelli, Guido, 5, 67, 68, 71, 76, 77, 85, 88, 104, 182

Guiscard, Robert, 209

Guittone d’Arezzo, 5

Hauteville, House of, 2, 16

Henry III., King of England, 170

—— VI., Emperor, 2

—— VII., Emperor, 47-53, 62, 100, 109, 112, 121, 123-125, 130, 143, 179, 217

Hezekiah, 210

Horace, 140

Hugh Capet, 42, 178

Hugh of St. Victor, 205

Ilario, Frate, 54

Illuminato, 205

Irnerius, 2

Isaiah, 92, 120, 127

Isidore, St., of Seville, 154, 205

Jacopone da Todi, 176

James, St., 214

Jeremiah, 20, 120, 127, 146, 215

Joachim of Flora, 206

John the Baptist, St., 219

—— Chrysostom, St., 206

—— of Damascus, St., 213

John the Evangelist, St., 186, 214, 219

—— XXI. (Peter of Spain), Pope, 206

—— XXII., Pope, 54, 118, 210

—— of Paris, 117n.

Joshua, 209

Judas Iscariot, 163

—— Maccabaeus, 209

Judith, 219

Justinian, Emperor, 59, 109, 202, 203

Juvenal, 140

Kipling, Rudyard, 107n.

Lacaita, J. P., 65

Lana, Jacopo della, 51

Leah, 183-186

Lippo de’ Bardi, 15

“Lisetta,” 93n.

Livi, G., 80n., 92n., 144n.

Livy, 141

Louis of Bavaria, 60, 118

—— St., of France, 3

Lucan, 140, 162, 163, 167, 169

Lucia (St. Lucy), 148, 171, 219

Lucifer, 149, 150, 160-164

Luzzatto, G., 35n.

Malaspina (family), 44

—— Alagia de’ Fieschi, 178

—— Currado, 170

—— Franceschino, 45

——Moroello, 123, 151n., 178

Malavolti, Ubaldino, 35

Manfred, 3, 4, 8, 16, 104, 168

Marco the Lombard, 175

Margaret, Empress, 125

Martin IV., Pope, 181

Mary the Blessed Virgin, 20;

Beatrice under her banner, 77;

symbolises Divine Mercy, 148;

the Queen of Mercy, 170;

examples of her life, 173, 177, 186, 201, 203;

her Assumption in the Stellar Heaven, 213;

her glory in the Empyrean, 219;

her intercession for Dante, 220

Matelda, 74, 184-188, 192, 218

Matilda, Countess of Tuscany, 8, 185

Mazzini, 104, 114

Medusa, 154

Mechthild of Hackeborn, 185

—— of Magdeburg, 185

Merlin, 85

Meuccio, 15

Milotti, Fiducio dei, 132

Minerbetti, Maso, 35

Moncetti, G. B., 134

Monferrato, Marquis Giovanni of, 108

Montefeltro, Buonconte da, 20, 168

—— Guido da, 99, 159, 168

Moore, E., 20n., 134, 145, 163n.

Moses, 219

Musaeus, 169

Musciatto Franzesi, 42

Mussato, Albertino, 132

Nathan, 206

Niccolò da Prato, Cardinal, 42, 122

—— Pisano, 6

Nicholas III., Pope, 15, 158

Nogaret, William of, 41

Oderisi, 174

Ordelaffi, Scarpetta degli, 41, 49

Orlandi, Orlanduccio, 37

Orlando, 209

Orosius, 141, 205

Orsini, Cardinal Napoleone, 46, 126

Ottimo Commento, the, 22, 35, 64, 185

Otto, Emperor, 109

Ottocar, 170

Ovid, 141

Palinurus, 169

Parodi, E. G., 63, 143, 191

Paul, St., 120, 129, 148, 180, 187

Pazzi, Carlino dei, 41, 145

Perini, Dino, 58, 131, 151n.

Peter, St., Apostle, 187, 213, 215

—— of Aragon, 16, 18, 170

—— Comestor, 206

—— Damian, 212

—— of Spain. See John XXI.

——the Lombard, 205

Petrarch, 47, 52, 125, 134

Philip the Fair, 32, 42, 178

Phlegyas, 154

“Pietra,” 22, 89

Plato, 94

Plotinus, 220

Poggetto, Bertrando del, 119

Poggi, Andrea, 11, 127, 151n.

—— Leone, 10

Portinari, Bice. See Beatrice

—— Folco, 12, 15

—— Manetto, 15, 57, 78

Pucci, Antonio, 134

Pythagoras, 85

Quirino, Giovanni, 144

Rabanus Maurus, 206

Rachel, 183, 185, 219

Rahab, 204

Rajna, P., 138n.

Ranieri di Zaccaria, 56

Rebecca, 219

Renoardo, 209

Rhipeus, 152, 210, 211

Ricci, C., 133n.

Riccomanni, Lapo, 10

Richard of St. Victor, 129, 141, 183, 205, 220

Robert the Wise, King of Naples, 49, 52, 56, 117n., 124, 130, 133n.

Romano, Cunizza da, 204

—— Ezzelino da, 3, 204

Romena, Alessandro da, 122

—— Oberto and Guido da, 122

Romeo, 203

Rossetti, 10, 57, 68, 76, 107, 181

Rudolph of Hapsburg, 16, 100, 170, 204

Ruggieri, Abp., 161

Rustico di Filippo, 85

Ruth, 219

Saladin, 152

Salterelli, Lapo, 37

Salvani, Provenzano, 9, 174

Sapia, 174

Sarah, 219

Scala, Albuino della, 44, 57

—— Bartolommeo della, 43

—— Can Grande della, 43, 57, 58, 62, 63, 121, 127, 130, 132, 144, 147, 208

Scartazzini, G. A., 11, 13, 21

Sennuccio del Bene, 53

Serravalle, Giovanni da, 47

Shakespeare, 26, 163

Shelley, 60, 96, 134, 210, 231

Siger, 205, 206

Signorelli, Luca, 155

Sinon, 160

Solomon, 119, 205, 207

Sordello, 169, 170

Spenser, 107n.

Spini (family), 29

Statius, 140, 179-183, 186, 189, 192

Swinburne, 107n.

Tiberius, 115

Torraca, F., 45n., 123n.

Tosa, Baschiera della, 43

Toynbee, P., 122n.

See Bibliographical Appendix

Trajan, 109, 173, 210

Tundal, 139, 170

Ubaldini, the, 41

Uberti, Farinata degli, 8, 155

—— Tolosato degli, 43

Ugolino, Count, 125, 161

Uguccione della Faggiuola, 46, 54-57

Ulysses, 160

Veltro, the, 93, 147, 191, 203

Vernani, Fra Guido, 119

Vernon, W. W., 65

Vigna, Piero della, 156

Villani, F., 11, 60, 127

—— G., 9, 11, 17, 29, 46, 102, 121, 125

Villari, P., 50

Vincent of Beauvais, 180

“Violetta,” 84

Virgil, 140-143, 147-149, 153-164, 169, 175-188, 211, 218

Visconti, Nino, 170

Wicksteed, P. H., 95, 98n.

William of Orange, 209

—— II., King of Sicily, 3, 210

Witte, K., 21, 98, 143, 157

Zeno, San, Abbot of, 177