The table of contents given at the front of this collection of DGR manuscripts does not list all of the manuscript works actually contained in the book. The poems are early works.
A man that was an householder went out
early in the morning to
hire labourers into
his vineyard; and he agreed with the
labourers
for a penny a day. . . . . . . . . And about
the
eleventh hour he went out and found
others standing idle in the
market place. . .
and saith unto them; Go ye also into
the
vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that
ye shall receive. So
when even was come,
they that were hired about the eleventh hour
re-
ceived likewise every man a penny. So the
last shall be
first, and the first last.
The person here meant may be either Charles II King
of Naples &
Count of Provence, or more probably his
son Charles Martel crowned King of
Hungary
may have borne the
that time. I say more probably, as Dante was we
know by
Dante's own showing, that he was once a
friendship subsisted
between him and Charles Martel
who died in the king ? lifetime
(see
Paradise C. VIII)
Solinus was a Latin grammarian
most probably of the 8th century,
author
of the “Polyhistor” and [?] of historical
& geographic a historical & geographical
work
called the “Polyhistor”.
Death of Corso Donati (flying from
Florence) 1308 (see Pecorone of
? Ser Giovanni Fiorentino. Giov. 24
Nov. 2)
Abbate Luigi Regoli: Saggio di Rime
Antiche. Firenze 1825.
Perticasi
Villarosa
Nov. 18 (Della
Grande liberta
e cortesia del
N. Giovani