A.D. 1284 Prince Charles of Anjou is defeated and made prisoner by Rugier de Lauria, admiral to Peter III. of Arragon. Purg. xx. 78. Charles I. king of Naples, dies. Purg. vii. 111. Alonzo X. of Castile, dies. He caused the Bible to be translated Philip (next year IV. of France) marries Jane, daughter of 1285 Pope Martin IV. dies. Purg. xxiv. 23. Philip III. of France and Peter III. of Arragon die. Purg. vii. 101 and 110. Henry II. king of Cyprus, comes to the throne. Par. xix. 144. Simon Memmi, the painter, celebrated by Petrarch, is born. 1287 Guido dalle Colonne (mentioned by Dante in his De Vulgari Eloquio) writes "The War of Troy." Pope Honorius IV. dies. 1288 Haquin, king of Norway, makes war on Denmark. Par. xix. 135. Count Ugolino de' Gherardeschi dies of famine. H. xxxiii. 14. 1289 Dante is in the battle of Campaldino, where the Florentines defeat the people of Arezzo, June 11. Purg. v. 90. 1290 Beatrice dies. Purg. xxxii. 2. He serves in the war waged by the Florentines upon the Pisans, and is present at the surrender of Caprona in the autumn. H. xxi. 92. Guido dalle Colonne dies. William, marquis of Montferrat, is made prisoner by his traitorous subjects, at Alessandria in Lombardy. Purg. vii. 133. Michael Scot dies. H. xx. 115. A.D. 1291 Dante marries Gemma de' Donati, with whom he lives unhappily. By this marriage he had five sons and a daughter. Can Grande della Scala is born, March 9. H. i. 98; Purg. xx. 16; Par xvii. 75, and xxvii. 135. The renegade Christians assist the Saracens to recover St. John The Emperor Rodolph dies. Purg. vi. 104, and vii. 91. Alonzo III. of Arragon dies, and is succeeded by James II. Eleanor, widow of Henry III., dies. Par. vi. 135. 1292 Pope Nicholas IV. dies. Roger Bacon dies. John Baliol, king of Scotland, crowned. 1294 Clement V. abdicates the papal chair. H. iii. 56. Fra Guittone d'Arezzo, the poet, dies. Purg. xxiv. 56. 1295 Dante's preceptor, Brunetto Latini, dies. H. xv. 28. Charles Martel, king of Hungary, visits Florence, Par. viii. Frederick, son of Peter III. of Arragon, becomes king of Sicily. Taddeo, the physician of Florence, called the Hippocratean, Marco Polo, the traveller, returns from the East to Venice. Ferdinand IV. of Castile comes to the throne. Par. xix. 122. 1296 Forese, the companion of Dante, dies. Purg. xxxiii. 44. Sadi, the most celebrated of the Persian writers, dies. War between England and Scotland, which terminates in the submission of the Scots to Edward I.; but in the following year, Sir William Wallace attempts the deliverance of Scotland. Par. xix. 121. 1298 The Emperor Adolphus falls in a battle with his rival, Albert I, who succeeds him in the Empire. Purg. vi. 98. A.D. 1298 Jacopo da Varagine, archbishop of Genoa, author of the Legenda Aurea, dies. 1300 The Bianca and Nera parties take their rise in Pistoia. II. xxxii. 60. This is the year in which he supposes himself to see his Vision. He is chosen chief magistrate, or first of the Priors of Florence: Cimabue, the painter, dies. Purg. xi. 93. Guido Cavalcanti, the most beloved of our Poet's friends, dies. H. x. 59, and Purg. xi. 96. 1301 The Bianca party expels the Nera from Pistoia. H. xxiv. 142. 1302 January 27. During his absence at Rome, Dante is mulcted by his fellow-citizens in the sum of 8000 lire, and condemned to two years' banishment. 1302 March 10. He is sentenced, if taken, to be burned. Fulcieri de' Calboli commits great atrocities on certain of the Carlino de' Pazzi betrays the castle di Piano Travigne, in The French vanquished in the battle of Courtrai. Purg. xx. 47. James, king of Majorca and Minorca, dies. Par. xix. 133. 1303 Pope Boniface VIII. dies. H. xix. 55; Purg. xx. 86, xxxii. 146; and Par. xxvii. 20. The other exiles appoint Dante one of a council of twelve, 1304 Dante joins with the exiles in an unsuccessful attack on the city of Florence. May. The bridge over the Arno breaks down during a representation of the infernal torments exhibited on that river. H, xxvį. 9, A.D. 1304 July 20. Petrarch, whose father had been banished two years before from Florence, is born at Arezzo. 1305 Winceslaus II., king of Bohemia, dies. Purg. vii. 99, and Par. xix. 123. A conflagration happens at Florence. H. xxvi. 9. Sir William Wallace is executed at London. 1306 Dante visits Padua. 1307 He is in Lunigiana with the Marchese Marcello Malaspina. Purg. viii. 133, xix. 140. Dolcino, the fanatic, is burned. H. xxviii. 53. Edward II. of England comes to the throne. 1308 The Emperor Albert I. murdered. Purg. vi. 98, and Par. xix. 114. Corso Donati, Dante's political enemy, slain. Purg. xxiv. 81. He seeks an asylum at Verona, under the roof of the Signori della Scala. Par. xvii. 69. He wanders, about this time, over various parts of Italy. See Robert, the patron of Petrarch, is crowned king of Sicily. Duns Scotus dies. He was born about the same time as 1309 Charles II., king of Naples, dies. Par. xix. 125. 1310 The Order of the Templars abolished. Purg. xx. 94. Jean de Meun, the continuer of the Roman de la Rose, dies Pier Crescenzi of Bologna writes his book on agriculture, in 1311 Fra Giordano da Rivalta, of Pisa, a Dominican, the author of sermons esteemed for the purity of the Tuscan language, dies. 1312 Robert, king of Sicily, opposes the coronation of the Emperor Henry VII. Par. viii. 59. A.D. 1312 Ferdinand IV. of Castile dies, and is succeeded by Alonzo XI. Dino Compagni, a distinguished Florentine, concludes his history of his own time, written in elegant Italian. Gaddo Gaddi, the Florentine artist, dies. 1313 The Emperor Henry of Luxemburgh, by whom he had hoped to be restored to Florence, dies. Par. xvii. 80, and xxx. 135. Henry is succeeded by Lewis of Bavaria. Dante takes refuge at Ravenna, with Guido Novello da Giovanni Boccaccio is born. Pope Clement V. dies. H. xix. 86, and Par. xxvii. 53, and xxx. 141. 1314 Philip IV. of France dies. Purg. vii. 108, and Par. xix. 117. Louis X. succeeds. Ferdinand IV. of Spain dies. Par. xix. 122. Giacopo da Carrara defeated by Can Grande, who makes himself master of Vicenza. Par. ix. 45. 1315 Louis X. of France marries Clemenza, sister to our Poet's friend, Charles Martel, king of Hungary. Par. ix. 2. 1316 Louis X. of France dies, and is succeeded by Philip V. John XXII. elected Pope. Par. xxvii. 53. Joinville, the French historian, dies about this time. 1320 About this time John Gower is born, eight years before his friend Chaucer. 1321 July. Dante dies at Ravenna, of a complaint brought on by disappointment at his failure in a negotiation which he had been conducting with the Venetians, for his patron Guido Novello da Polenta. His obsequies are sumptuously performed at Ravenna by |