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| Toynbee "Alfonso_1" |
Alfonso III, king of Aragon, 1285-1291, eldest son
of Pedro III, whom he succeeded in Aragon. D. places him in the
valley of flowers in Ante-Purgatory among the princes who
neglected
to repent; he represents him as seated behind his father and
refers
to him, on account of his having died before he was thirty, as
lo giovanetto,
[Purg. vii. 116]
[Antipurgatorio].
(Some commentators, however, take lo giovanetto to be,
not Alfonso, but Pedro, the last-born son of Pedro III
[Pietro_4].)
D. implies that Alfonso was superior to his
brothers, James (who succeeded him in Aragon as James II) and
Frederick (who became king of Sicily as Frederick II, 1296-1337)
[Pietro_3].
A. is perhaps referred to as l'onor di Cicilia e
d'Aragona,
[Purg. iii. 116]
[Aragona:
Iacomo_1:
Table I].
©Oxford University Press 1968. From A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante by Paget Toynbee
(1968) by permission of Oxford University Press