Vergil in the Middle AgesFrom its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti's Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from antiquity to Dante." Treating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, Comparetti seeks to give a complete history of the medieval conception of the preeminent poet. Scholars of the time had transformed Vergil into a sage and a seer, a type of universal philosopher--even a Christian poet and a guide of a Christian poet. In the mid-twelfth century, there surfaced legends that converted Vergil into a magician, endowing him with supernatural powers. Comparetti explores the ongoing interest in Vergil's poetry as it appeared in popular folklore and legends as well as in medieval classical scholarship. This great synthesizing work, which has been unavailable for over twenty years, is now back in print, based on E.F.M. Benecke's 1895 translation of the Italian second edition. |
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... Italy CHAPTER XIV . Dante . Character and tendency of his intellectual activity . Limits of his classical culture . The points in this where he approaches the medieval monks and where he differs 34 60 50 35 75 96 104 119 135 156 166 183 ...
... Italian patriotism . Reason of the sympathy between Dante and Vergil . The bello stile of Dante and Vergil CHAPTER ... Italy and the romances . Legend of Vergil as magician originates among the common people at Naples . It invades ...
... Italian editions ( 1872 , 1896 , 1937-1941 ) , and was poised for the first of several editions in English ( 1895 , 1908 , 1929 , 1966 ) . Ellis also prophesied rightly that the book seemed " hardly likely to be superseded . " When in ...
... Italian classical studies and even of Italian historical and literary scholarship as a whole - VMA has been singled out as uniquely deserving of continuing to be consulted.15 The final paragraph on Compa- retti in the Enciclopedia ...
... Italian edition ) and the other in the popular legend ( the second of the two volumes ) . The literary tradition was argued to be broadly European , whereas according to Com- paretti the popular was more parochially Neapolitan - a view ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 3 |
CHAPTER II | 15 |
CHAPTER III | 24 |
CHAPTER IV | 34 |
CHAPTER V | 50 |
CHAPTER VI | 75 |
CHAPTER VII | 96 |
CHAPTER VIII | 104 |
CHAPTER XV | 210 |
CHAPTER XVI | 232 |
THE VERGIL OF POPULAR LEGEND | 239 |
CHAPTER II | 257 |
CHAPTER III | 264 |
CHAPTER IV | 290 |
CHAPTER V | 295 |
CHAPTER VI | 302 |
CHAPTER IX | 119 |
CHAPTER X | 135 |
CHAPTER XI | 156 |
CHAPTER XII | 166 |
CHAPTER XIII | 183 |
CHAPTER XIV | 195 |
CHAPTER VII | 309 |
CHAPTER VIII | 325 |
CHAPTER IX | 340 |
CHAPTER X | 358 |