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... Edition , Padua , 1827 , in which a large number of Dante's quotations in that work are identified . I have not always been able to agree with him , especially as to the references given to Aristotle . Moreover he has unaccountably ...
... Edition , Padua , 1827 , in which a large number of Dante's quotations in that work are identified . I have not always been able to agree with him , especially as to the references given to Aristotle . Moreover he has unaccountably ...
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... edition of Ovid ( Metam . vii . 759 seqq . ) will recognize the passage which Dante is imitating in this line , and , further , in this context generally . But he will also find that it reads thus : ' Carmina Laiades non intellecta ...
... edition of Ovid ( Metam . vii . 759 seqq . ) will recognize the passage which Dante is imitating in this line , and , further , in this context generally . But he will also find that it reads thus : ' Carmina Laiades non intellecta ...
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... editions , and solemnly defended by a commentator so generally sensible as Daniello da Lucca by a citation of Eccles . i . 15 , ' Stultorum infinitus est numerus ' ! Imagine the absurdity of Dante describing the ' innumerable company of ...
... editions , and solemnly defended by a commentator so generally sensible as Daniello da Lucca by a citation of Eccles . i . 15 , ' Stultorum infinitus est numerus ' ! Imagine the absurdity of Dante describing the ' innumerable company of ...
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... editions have che after morrà , but this should evidently be chè ( = quia in the original ) , a difference which would be lost in most MSS . ( 15 ) Conv . IV . xv . 11. 137 seqq . Vedesti l'uomo ratto a rispondere ? di lui stoltezza ...
... editions have che after morrà , but this should evidently be chè ( = quia in the original ) , a difference which would be lost in most MSS . ( 15 ) Conv . IV . xv . 11. 137 seqq . Vedesti l'uomo ratto a rispondere ? di lui stoltezza ...
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... editions and manuscripts of the Convito ( among the latter my own ) read here , contro a sermoni dei poeti . This possibly originated from an ingenious conjecture of some copyist who remembered the passage in Aristotle , or perhaps was ...
... editions and manuscripts of the Convito ( among the latter my own ) read here , contro a sermoni dei poeti . This possibly originated from an ingenious conjecture of some copyist who remembered the passage in Aristotle , or perhaps was ...
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