Wednesday, October 04, 2023
An Extra Zero
Barbara Reynolds (1914-2015), Dante: The Poet, the Political Thinker, the Man (Emeryville: Shoemaker Hoard, 2006), p. 14, with note on p. 424:
From Eric Thomson:
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The chronicler Giovanni Villani48 records that the population in his day was about 900,000, not counting the religious orders of monks and nuns in monasteries and convents.For 900,000 read 90,000.
48. c.1280–1348.
From Eric Thomson:
The American Shoemaker Hoard edition must have unwittingly inflated the numbers (does 'decimate' have an antonym?). Perhaps shoemakers have their gremlins as well as their elves. All kosher in my I.B.Tauris copy anyway.
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