Note 20 — Chapter VII

Paradiso, xxv. 7. Girol. Benivieni, Cantico in laude di Dante Alighieri, in Works, Venice 1522. Cf. Bandini, ii. 134-136. The latter part of the poem, from the line ‘La patria, che a me madre, a Te noverca,’ refers to the above-quoted lines of Dante. The restoration of citizen rights to the poet’s great-great-grandson, who bore his name, and who was a friend of Poliziano (Letter to Lorenzo, Flor. June 5, 1490, in the Prose volgari, &c., p. 76), did not take place till 1496, and was paid for! (Gaye, l. c. p. 584.)