1305.  Winceslaus ii. king of Bohemia, dies.  Purg.  C. VII. 99. and Par.  C. XIX 123.  A conflagration happens at Florence.  H. C. XXVI. 9.

1306.  Dante visits Padua.

1307.  He is in Lunigiana with the Marchese Marcello Malaspina.  Purg.  C. VIII. 133. and C. XIX. 140.  Dolcino, the fanatic, is burned.  H. C. XXVIII. 53.

1308.  The Emperor Albert I. murdered.  Purg.  C. VI. 98. and Par.  C. XIX. 114.  Corso Donati, Dante’s political enemy, slain.  Purg.  C. XXIV. 81.  He seeks an asylum at Verona, under the roof of the Signori della

Scala.  Par.  C. XVII. 69.  He wanders, about this time, over various parts of Italy.  See his Convito.  He is at Paris twice; and, as one of the early commentators reports, at Oxford.

1309.  Charles ii. king of Naples, dies.  Par.  C. XIX. 125.

1310.  The Order of the Templars abolished.  Purg.  C. XX. 94.

1313.  The Emperor Henry of Luxemburg, by whom he had hoped to be restored to Florence, dies.  Par.  C. XVII. 80. and xxx. 135.  He takes refuge at Ravenna with Guido Novello da Polenta.

1314.  Pope Clement V. dies.  H. C. XIX. 86. and Par.  C. XXVII. 53. and xxx. 141.  Philip iv. of France dies.  Purg.  C. VII. 108. and Par.  C. XIX. 117.  Ferdinand iv. of Spain, dies.  Par.  C. XIX. 122.  Giacopo da Carrara defeated by Can Grande.  Par.  C. IX. 45.

1316.  John xxii. elected Pope.  Par.  C. XXVII. 53.

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 Guido, who himself died in the ensuing year.