He says, moreover, that Dante places Sordello alone and separate from the others, like Saladin in Inferno IV 129, on account of his superiority, or because he wrote a book entitled “The Treasure of Treasures”; and that Sordello was a Mantuan of the village of Goïto⁠—“beautiful of person, valiant of spirit, gentle of manner.”

Finally, Quadrio, Storia d’ogni Poesia , II 130, easily cuts the knot which no one can untie; but unfortunately he does not give his authorities. He writes:⁠—