Brunette Latini translated seventeen chapters of it into Italian.

4to; Poetæ Latini Minores, 2 vols.

His mother's friend, Brunetto Latini, famous as statesman and scholarly poet, was of great assistance in directing his tastes and studies.

Giotto introduced the portrait of Dante which has drawn so many people to this little room, together with portraits of Corso Donati, and Brunetto Latini, Dante's tutor.

By him several colonies were transplanted, which were called Prisci Latini.

Latini or Nomen Latinum a. Old Latin towns except such as had been made Municipia b. Colonies of old Latin towns c. Joint colonies (if any) of Rome and old Latin towns d. Colonies of Italians from all parts of Italy founded by Rome under the name of Latin Colonies 2.

[Sidenote: The Latini.]

The Latini had no vote at Rome, no right of holding offices, and were practically Roman subjects.

The Latini may have had Commercium and Connubium, or only the former.

There is no doubt that either legally or irregularly Latini did migrate to Rome and did so obtain the citizenship, but we know no more.

There are different accounts of this measure; but Appian says that he wished to give the Latini the Jus Suffragii and Jus Honorum, and to the rest of the Italians the Jus Suffragii only.

Moreover, it amply indemnified the Socii and Latini who had surrendered land for the colonies of Caius, while some compensation was given to poor farmers by a clause, that in future a man might only graze ten large and fifty smaller beasts on the pastures of what still remained public land.

One of his instructors was Brunetto Latini, the most famous scholar then living; and he studied both at the universities of Padua and Bologna.

From a Miniature in the 'Tresor of Brunetto Latini, Manuscript of the Fourteenth Century, in the Library of the Arsenal, Paris.]

Aug., Gaud., Brix., Alii Latini.'

At Caesar's games Octavian, then sixteen years of age, must have led one of the troops: in the fifth book Atys the ancestor of Octavian's maternal line led one column by the side of Iulus: Alter Atys, genus unde Atii duxere Latini (1. 568).

"Ladies and gentlemen," he began, "I have translated into the French tongue, which Brunetto Latini declared to be the most delectable of all, the Gerusalemme Liberata, the glorious masterpiece of the divine Torquato Tasso.

In the chapel of the Podestà he drew the portraits of Dante, Brunetto Latini, and Charles of Valois.

XII Panegyrici Latini: recensuit Aemilius Baehrens.

Poetae Latini Minores: recensuit Aemilius Baehrens.

Cependant notre prélat en parle comme si, de son temps, elle eût été île encore: "in dextera parte portûs parva insula habetur, in qua maxima turris est quam, in commune, Græci ac Latini, ex ipsius rei usu, Pharum vocitaverunt."

One other was discovered and published from MS. by Hortis, in his Studi sulle opere latini, p. 351.

BRUNETTO-LATINI, an Italian writer, who played an important part among the Guelfs, and was obliged to flee to Paris, where he had Dante for a pupil (1220-1294).