Appendix A—Genealogical Table of the Family of Dante
APPENDIX A
GENEALOGICAL TABLE OF THE FAMILY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI
Note.—The dates attached to the names are those of documents in which the individuals in question are mentioned.
aPar. xv. 89, 135.
b Par. xv. 136.
c Par. xv. 136.
d Par. xv. 137-8.
e Par. xv. 91-4.
f Inf. xvi. 37.
g Par, xv. 112; xvi. 99.
h Son. lii*. 8; liii*. 14; liv*. 1.
i Inf. xxix. 27.
j Son. liii*. 10.
k Son. liii*. 10.
l Son. liii*. 11.
1 In a document dated 28 April, 1131, mention is made of “Cacciaguida filius Adami” (see Davidsohn, Geschichte von Florenz, i. 440 n.).
2 Eliseo had a grandson (Arrigo), and great-grandsons (Bonaccorso and Eliseo), exiled from Florence in 1268; and great-great-grandsons (Bonaccorso, d. 1303, and Guidotto), returned to Florence in 1280.
3 See above, p. 41 n.
4 Brunetto fought at Montaperti (4 Sept. 1260), where he was in charge of the Carroccio.
5 Cenni, i.e. Bencivenni.
6 Cione, i.e. Uguccione, was alive in I298; his sons are mentioned, together with Dante, in the Riforma di Baldo d’ Aguglione (2 Sept. 1311), viz. “De Sextu Porte Sancti Petri. . . . Filii domini Cionis del Bello et Dante Allighierii.”
7 Bella’s family is unknown; it is conjectured that she was the daughter of Durante di Scolaio degli Abati, in which case Dante’s Christian name (a contraction of Durante) was doubtless derived from his maternal grandfather. Bella is mentioned as deceased in a document dated 16 May, 1332: “dominae Bellae olim matris dicti Dantis, et olim aviae dictorum Jacobi et domini Pieri” (see Scherillo, Alcuni Capitoli dell a Biografia di Dante, p. 29).
8 Lapa was alive in 1332, as appears from the document of 16 May, 1332, quoted in the previous note : “dominae Lapae matris dicti Francisci, et filiae olim Chiarissimi Cialuffi, et uxoris olim Alaghierii supradicti”.
9 Gemma is mentioned in a deed dated 24 Aug. 1329 : “domine Gemme vidue uxori olim dantis allagherii et filie quondam domini Manetti domini Donati” (see Bullettino della Società Dantesca Italiana, N.S. 1902, ix. 184).
10 Francesco is mentioned in at least twenty documents between 1297 and 1343 (see Bullettino della Società Dantesca Italiana, N.S. 1907, xiv. 124-36).
11 This sister of Dante’s is conjectured to be the “donna giovane e gentile . . . la quale era meco di propinquissima sanguinità congiunta “of Vita Nuova, § 23, ll, 86, 94-6; the “Donna pietosa e di novella etate, Adorna assai di gentilezze umane,” of Canz. ii. 12.
12 Pietro and Jacopo are mentioned in the second decree of banishment against Dante (6 Nov. 1315): “Dantem Adhegerii et filios”; as well as (by name) in documents of 1332 and 1342. Many documents relating to Pietro’s life at Verona (1332-1364) have been preserved (see Bullettino della Società Dantesca Italiana, N.S. 1906, xiii. 41-7).
13 Beatrice was alive in 1350 as a nun at Ravenna (“suora Beatrice figliuola che fu di Dante Allighieri monaca nel monastero di San Stefano dell Uliva di Ravenna”), when Boccaccio was commissioned to present her with ten gold florins on behalf of the Capitani di Or San Michele of Florence; she died before 1370, in which year there is a record of the payment of a bequest of hers of three gold ducats to the convent where she had lived (see Giornale Dantcsco, vii, 339-4o).
14 Andrea Poggi supplied Boccaccio with information about Dante’s habits and manner of life (see above, pp. 39, 209-11).
[Besides the authorities mentioned above, see L. Passerini, Della Famiglia di Dante, in Dante e il suo Secolo (pp. 53-78); Frullani e Gargani, Della Casa di Dante; G. L. Passerini, La Famiglia Alighieri; and A. Bartoli, Della Vita di Dante Alighieri, in Storia della Letter at lira Italiana (vol. v. pp. 1-21, 97-110).]