...Villani says of his refining the Tuscan idiom (for so we understand his farli scorti in bene parlare ), are to be noted as of probable influence on the career of his pupil. Of the order of Dante 's studies nothing can be certainly affirmed. His biographers send him to Bologna, Padua, Paris, Naples, and even Oxford. All are doubtful, Paris and Oxford most of all, and the dates utterly unde...