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The ANTIQUITY of the WOOLLEN MANUFACTURE 

 in IREL AND, proved from a Paffage of an ant lent Florentine 

 Poet. 5^ M^^^r/ o^CHARLEMONT, P.i?./.^. 



1 HE following lines are taken from an old Italian poem, Read Feb. 

 entitled Dittamondi*, and written by Fazio Delli Uberti, a noble- ^°' '^^fi- 

 man of Florence, who, though certainly not, as fome fuppofe, con- 

 temporary with Dante, flourifhed not long after the death of that 

 poet; but, as the value of the information contained in thefe lines 

 principally depends upon the antiquity of the work, it may not 

 be fuperfluous, as far as I am able, to afcertain its date. 



In the nineteenth chapter of the fourth book, the author con- 

 cludes a genealogical account of the kings of France with thefe 

 lines : 



Philippo di Valifo Signer poi 



Et Giovan el Figliol, del qual conchiudo 



Che con gran' guerra tiene el Regno ancoi f . 



From hence it appears certain, that, as John the fon of 

 Philip of Valois is mentioned as the monarch then reigning, 

 the poem muft have been compofed before the year 1364, in 



* We are told by Quadrio, della Storia e della Ragione d'ogni Poefia, vol. iv. 

 p. 47, that the true title of this poem was Di£l:a Mundi, which was afterwards, by 

 corruption, written Dittamondi, and Dittamondo. 



-j- Philip of Valois afterivard luat Lord, 

 And John his fon, -with -whom I now conclude. 

 Who with a mighty war fill holds the realm. 



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