No one has a good word to say for Vanni Fucci, except the Canonico Crescimbeni, who, in the “ Comentarj ” to the Istoria della Volg. Poesia , II ii , p. 99, counts him among the Italian Poets, and speaks of him as a man of great courage and gallantry, and a leader of the Neri party of Pistoia, in 1300. He smooths over Dante’s invectives by remarking that Dante “makes not too honorable mention of him in the Comedy”; and quotes a sonnet of his, which is pathetic from its utter despair and self-reproach:⁠—