Commentary Par XIX 120

This mention of the death of the French king dates the canto as having been composed (or, at least, modified) after November 1314, according to Campi (DDP Campi.Par.XIX.118-120); see also Foster (Fost.1976.1), p. 85.  The Ottimo (DDP Ottimo.Par.XIX.118-120), writing in 1333, knew about the death of Philip the Fair, caused by a boar.  (The word cotenna, in Tuscany, meant the hide of a wild pig and perhaps, in Dante's day [as nineteenth-century commentators report, even then on the tongues of peasants in the Romagna], referred to the whole dangerous animal.)  Lombardi (DDP Lombardi.Par.XIX.120) explains what happened (citing Villani [Cron. IX.66]): A boar ran among the legs of Philip's horse and the frightened animal threw his royal rider, killing him.