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... further thus : -The Vulgate is quoted or referred to more than 500 times , Aristotle more than 300 , Virgil about 200 , Ovid about 100 , Cicero and Lucan about 50 each , Statius and Boethius between 30 and 40 each , Horace , Livy and ...
... further thus : -The Vulgate is quoted or referred to more than 500 times , Aristotle more than 300 , Virgil about 200 , Ovid about 100 , Cicero and Lucan about 50 each , Statius and Boethius between 30 and 40 each , Horace , Livy and ...
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... Further , we suspect on two or three occasions a possible knowledge of Valerius Maximus , though he is nowhere mentioned by Dante . It is to be again remembered that Peter Lombard , Bonaventura , Hugh and Richard of St. Victor , and ...
... Further , we suspect on two or three occasions a possible knowledge of Valerius Maximus , though he is nowhere mentioned by Dante . It is to be again remembered that Peter Lombard , Bonaventura , Hugh and Richard of St. Victor , and ...
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... here that in this case also Dante departs from his usual practice by giving no further specification of its source than ' disse Aristotile . ' they are probably based upon earlier works of the same SCRIPTURE AND THE CLASSICS IN DANTE 15.
... here that in this case also Dante departs from his usual practice by giving no further specification of its source than ' disse Aristotile . ' they are probably based upon earlier works of the same SCRIPTURE AND THE CLASSICS IN DANTE 15.
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... . See further under Aristotle , No. 53 . 3 The numerous quotations in the Index show this context in Aristotle to have been specially familiar to Dante . heads of the authors in which they occur1 . In 18 STUDIES IN DANTE.
... . See further under Aristotle , No. 53 . 3 The numerous quotations in the Index show this context in Aristotle to have been specially familiar to Dante . heads of the authors in which they occur1 . In 18 STUDIES IN DANTE.
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... further com- ment ( since these and other similar passages will be found discussed later on ) , two illustrations of this . In the story of Niobe , which Dante evidently derived from Ovid , compare ' Tra sette et sette tuoi figliuoli ...
... further com- ment ( since these and other similar passages will be found discussed later on ) , two illustrations of this . In the story of Niobe , which Dante evidently derived from Ovid , compare ' Tra sette et sette tuoi figliuoli ...
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