189:. Arrighetto, therefore, in the lines above quoted, was addressing the new bishop Pietro, and appealing to his commiseration for the distress which he endured, in consequence, perhaps, of the vexations of the former bishop, Bernardo. The account of Filippo Villani, a countryman of Arrighetto, living at no very great distance of time, and a writer evidently well informed of the internal history of his country, need not be hastily rejected.
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Bernardo registered as having administered the see of Florence from 1182 till about 1189, when he was succeeded by Bishop Pietro, who governed that see till 1205. Arrighetto was writing his poem about 1192, or soon after, for he alludes to two events which had happened in that year as facts of recent occurrence, namely, the assassination of the
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Villani’s statement of the injury done to him by the bishop, and he seems inclined to reject Villani’s account. It is rather singular that another solution of this apparent inconsistency did not suggest itself to Tiraboschi. We
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Arrighetto, in order to deprive him of his benefice, which he wished to bestow upon one of his own relatives. The lawsuit was protracted for years, during which Arrighetto spent his whole property, and finally lost his benefice. He is said to have been reduced to the greatest distress, even
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Florence, in 1730, with a translation in Italian prose made by an anonymous writer, who, by his style, is supposed to have lived in the fourteenth century. This Italian translation, which is entitled “Trattato contro l’avversità della Fortuna,” has been registered by the
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Villani’s account. On the contrary, there is a passage in which the poet addresses the Bishop of Florence in terms of affectionate respect:
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The poem consists of about one thousand lines, and is divided into four books. The first two books are full of general complaints of his misfortunes, of his poverty, but especially of his being pointed at by the finger of scorn:
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Arrighetto, ovvero Trattato contro all'avversità della fortuna di Arrigo da Settimello
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