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... correct , or at least proportionately fair in relation to different authors , we may analyse the result further thus : -The Vulgate is quoted or referred to more than 500 times , Aristotle more than 300 , Virgil about 200 , Ovid about ...
... correct , or at least proportionately fair in relation to different authors , we may analyse the result further thus : -The Vulgate is quoted or referred to more than 500 times , Aristotle more than 300 , Virgil about 200 , Ovid about ...
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... correct than the premises , for there is only one definite quotation from Horace ( Ars Poetica , it is true ) in the whole of the Convito 1 . It is interesting to compare with the results thus tabulated some passages in which Dante ...
... correct than the premises , for there is only one definite quotation from Horace ( Ars Poetica , it is true ) in the whole of the Convito 1 . It is interesting to compare with the results thus tabulated some passages in which Dante ...
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... correct to infer that all the quotations and references in such a list as we have given above are proof of direct acquaintance on the part of Dante with the original passages . Allowance must no doubt be made , in the case at least of ...
... correct to infer that all the quotations and references in such a list as we have given above are proof of direct acquaintance on the part of Dante with the original passages . Allowance must no doubt be made , in the case at least of ...
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... correct than we have to improve his literary style or to bring his scientific or historical know- ledge up to date . Some of the tests bearing on this distinction I will speak of presently , but I will first select out of the 1 This is ...
... correct than we have to improve his literary style or to bring his scientific or historical know- ledge up to date . Some of the tests bearing on this distinction I will speak of presently , but I will first select out of the 1 This is ...
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... correct reading : ' Ma tosto fien li fatti le Naiade Che solveranno questo enigma forte . ' How came Dante , it may be asked , to assign to the Naiads the astonishing function of solving riddles ? But any one who refers to a modern ...
... correct reading : ' Ma tosto fien li fatti le Naiade Che solveranno questo enigma forte . ' How came Dante , it may be asked , to assign to the Naiads the astonishing function of solving riddles ? But any one who refers to a modern ...
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Aeneas Aeneid Albertus Magnus allusion Aquinas Aristotle Aristotle's attributed Augustine authority Boethius Brunetto Latini certainly Chalcidius Cicero citation cited Coelo Compare context Conv Convito copyist cose curious Dante Dante's derived described dice Divina Commedia doubt Edition Epistles especially Ethics evidently explained expression familiar to Dante further Giuliani Greek Homer Horace illustration imitation interpretation Jourdain Juvenal language Latin latter lines Livy Lucan mentioned Meteor Nature noticed observed occurs Orosius Ovid passage perhaps Phars Plato Poetica probably Procne Purg Purgatory quae quam quod quotation quoted reading reference resemblance says Scart Scartazzini Scripture seems seqq similar Statius suggested supra Textual Criticism Theb Timaeus Translatio translation viii Virgil Virgilian vita Vulg Vulgate words writers xxii xxviii γὰρ δὲ ἐν καὶ μὲν τὰ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῦ τῶν
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