J.B.H. `Twice-Told Tales: Brunetto Latino and Dante Alighieri' New York:
Peter Lang, 1993, discusses his initial presence at Montpellier (evidence
from `Tesoretto'), then , September 15 and 24, 1263, `apud Atrabatum',
Arras, April 17, 1264, then Bar-sur-l'Aube (which was a Fair where Italian
and other bankers went to negotiate loans) is named in document at
Westminster Abbey, both written in Brunetto Latino's own hand. The
Frontispiece gives the Arras document from the Vatican Secret Archives,
Miscellaneous Instrument 99. See indices to this book and to Robert
Davidsohn's volumes translated into Italian, for Arras, and for evidence of
the strong Florentine exilic presence in Arras. His father presumably
remained with the exiled Florentine community at San Frediano, Lucca, a
letter from him from there being written to Brunetto who was away on embassy
to Alfonso el Sabio at the defeat of Montaperti. Incidentally it is
Brunetto's hand which transcribes important sections into the ill-fated
`Libro di Montaperti'
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