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... instance , notably by Hettinger for St. Thomas Aquinas ; by Lubin for Hugh of St. Victor ; by Marriotto de Gagliole for St. Francis , and also for Aquinas . ( 2 ) I have also ex- cluded merely apt illustrations , or parallel passages ...
... instance , notably by Hettinger for St. Thomas Aquinas ; by Lubin for Hugh of St. Victor ; by Marriotto de Gagliole for St. Francis , and also for Aquinas . ( 2 ) I have also ex- cluded merely apt illustrations , or parallel passages ...
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... instance of reminiscence and imitation , which will be quoted below . In the case of Ovid , he knew well and used freely the Metamor- phoses ( ' Ovidio Maggiore , ' as , in common with other mediaeval writers , he sometimes calls this ...
... instance of reminiscence and imitation , which will be quoted below . In the case of Ovid , he knew well and used freely the Metamor- phoses ( ' Ovidio Maggiore , ' as , in common with other mediaeval writers , he sometimes calls this ...
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... instance of the former is to be found in Homeric quotations occurring in Dante . Homer was , of course , inaccessible to Dante in the original , and there was no Latin translation of him , as Dante informs us in Conv . I. vii . ad fin ...
... instance of the former is to be found in Homeric quotations occurring in Dante . Homer was , of course , inaccessible to Dante in the original , and there was no Latin translation of him , as Dante informs us in Conv . I. vii . ad fin ...
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... instance will suffice for illustration . In Conv . II . xiv . ll . 170 seqq . , any one reading the passage would suppose that Dante was quoting at first hand from the Arabian Albumassar , and then from Seneca ; but as Mr. Paget Toynbee ...
... instance will suffice for illustration . In Conv . II . xiv . ll . 170 seqq . , any one reading the passage would suppose that Dante was quoting at first hand from the Arabian Albumassar , and then from Seneca ; but as Mr. Paget Toynbee ...
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Scripture and Classical Authors in Dante Edward Moore. choruses of Handel , for instance , are simply borrowed or freely copied from earlier composers . But this practice was not then associated with any sense of literary dishonesty or ...
Scripture and Classical Authors in Dante Edward Moore. choruses of Handel , for instance , are simply borrowed or freely copied from earlier composers . But this practice was not then associated with any sense of literary dishonesty or ...
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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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