... would have shown Bayle to be right. The poet's descent is said to have been derived from a younger son of the great Roman family of the Frangipani, classed by the popular rhyme with the Orsini and Colonna :— Colonna, Orsini, e Frangipani, Prendono oggi e pagano domani. That his ancestors had been long established in Florence is an inference from some expressions of the poet, and from thei...