Cosi ha tolto I'lino all' altro Guido
La gloria della lingua ; e f orso e nato
Chi I'uno e 1' altro caccera di nido."

But this subject, triple though itself was in reference,
was only intended to be the first member of a triptych
picture. The second member was to show Dante, as
one of the Priori of Florence, adj udging both Cavaleanti
and a member of the opposite political faction to banish-
ment — the act which gave a pretext for Dante's own
exile from the country of his birth. The third and last
section of the triptych was to pourtray that incident
of Dante in exile and the court-jester, in the palace of
Can Grande della Scala, which Rossetti versified in his
poem Danie at Verona, This was truly a large and a
comprehensive scheme of work : it remained unrealized.
I now return to Mr. McCracken. In July 1853
he was corresponding with Rossetti about some further
work which he wished to commission. The subject of
The Madonna in the Hoiise of John (of which my brother

* These remarks on the Dante and Giotto watercolour are partly
reproduced from what I wrote, as printed in the sale-catalogue (Chris-
tie's) of my brother's remaining works in 1883.
