The Burial-places of Memory: Epic Underworlds in Vergil, Dante, and Milton |
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... meaning : " Aeneas is startled with surprise . . . . an unusual use of the verb , but cf. Pacuvius , fr . 294 R , where it seems to mean a thrill of joy ( the text is uncertain ) , Pan . Lat . 4 ( 10 ) . 29.5 ' cuius rei cum imaginem ...
... meaning : " Aeneas is startled with surprise . . . . an unusual use of the verb , but cf. Pacuvius , fr . 294 R , where it seems to mean a thrill of joy ( the text is uncertain ) , Pan . Lat . 4 ( 10 ) . 29.5 ' cuius rei cum imaginem ...
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... meaning of Boniface's way of speaking about the keys of Heaven is the same as the ultimate meaning of the way he came by them in the first place : as we have already seen , he stole them . Simony , like all the names Dante uses for ...
... meaning of Boniface's way of speaking about the keys of Heaven is the same as the ultimate meaning of the way he came by them in the first place : as we have already seen , he stole them . Simony , like all the names Dante uses for ...
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... meaning emerges . Certainly the sexual pas- sion to which the original Vergilian lines exclusively refer is part , though a tragically incomplete part , of the love of which the pilgrim is speaking at the top of the mountain , the love ...
... meaning emerges . Certainly the sexual pas- sion to which the original Vergilian lines exclusively refer is part , though a tragically incomplete part , of the love of which the pilgrim is speaking at the top of the mountain , the love ...
Contents
The Easy Descent from Avernus | 17 |
Language and History | 57 |
Traditions and the Individual Talent | 118 |
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