“Mastro di storlomia

E di filosofia.”

“Mastro di storlomia E di filosofia.”

It has been supposed by some commentators that Dante was indebted to the Tesoretto for the first idea of the Commedia . “If any one is pleased to imagine this,” says the Abbate Zannoni in the Preface to his edition of the Tesoretto , (Florence, 1824,) “he must confess that a slight and almost invisible spark served to kindle a vast conflagration.”