Note 329 — THE PROPHECY OF DANTE.
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"Ungrateful Florence! Dante sleeps afar."
Childe Harold, Canto IV. stanza lvii., Poetical Works, 1899, ii. 371, note 1.
"Between the second and third chapels [in the nave of Santa Croce at Florence] is the colossal monument to Dante, by Ricci ... raised by subscription in 1829. The inscription, 'A majoribus ter frustra decretum,' refers to the successive efforts of the Florentines to recover his remains, and raise a monument to their great countryman."—Handbook, Central Italy, p. 32.]