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Updated: June 28, 2025
In 1301 Dante was driven out of Florence, his native city-republic, by a political strife. In this year, as he himself phrases it, he descended into hell; that is, he began those weary wanderings in exile which ended only with his life, and which stirred in him the deeps that found expression in his mighty poem, the Divina Commedia.
These are: Annales Londonienses, perhaps written by ANDREW HORN, chamberlain of London, and compiler of the Liber Horn; they have much general value for the period 1301 to 1316, and deal more narrowly with London history from 1316 to 1330, when they conclude. Annales Paulini, 1307-1341, compiled by one of the clergy of St. Paul's, but not by Adam Murimuth. These take up Dr. Stubbs's first volume.
Parchment had become so extremely dear that a cheap substitute was discovered in an imitation of the cotton paper known in the East as charta bombycina. The imitation, made from rags, was first made at Basel, in 1170, by a colony of Greek refugees, according to some authorities; or at Padua, in 1301, by an Italian named Pax, according to others.
See Ep 954. p. 424. Ep. 960. p. 428. Ep. 974. p. 438. Ep. 976. p. 439. Ep. 976. p. 440. Ep. 982. p. 444. Ep. 993. p. 450. Ep. 1046. p. 472. Ep. 1111. p. 500. Ep. 1237. p. 560. Ep. 1263. p. 573. & 1301. p. 590. Bougeant l. 6. n. 32.
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