And I say to you, Charles, and to you, Frederick, Kings, and to you, ye other Princes and Tyrants, see who sits by the side of you in council." The Charles and Frederick here addressed were Charles II.

of Anjou, King of Naples, and Frederick of Aragon, King of Sicily; and King Charles died in the year 1310.
It has been inferred, therefore, that the four treatises of the Convito were not written consecutively.

The Second Treatise may have been begun some time after the death of Beatrice, in 1290, time being allowed after 1290 for the completion of the Vita Nuova and a period of devotion to philosophic studies.

That Second Treatise having been first written, the Treatise on Nobility, the Fourth, may have next followed; and this may have been written before the end of the year 1298.

The Third Treatise may have been written later, and made to connect the Second and the Fourth.