[29] Fast. iv. 291 f.
[30] The distinction of a religious, philosophic, and poetic World-view is based upon W. Dilthey: Das Wesen der Philosophie: Weltanschauungalehre (Hinneberg, Kultur der Gegenwart, I. vi).
[31] Wilamowitz, Oresteia, p. 47.
[32] Purg. xxiv. 52. 4.
[33] The case of Trajan, who for his justice was said to have been saved by the prayers of Gregory, is not quite parallel, since there was here a theological tradition in his favour. But at least Dante seizes on and emphasizes the tradition, and not merely ‘saves’ Trajan, but makes him the comrade of the glorious just kings in Jupiter (Par. xx. 44 f.).
[34] The second type I take to be represented, with obvious differences, for Dante by the ‘philosophical’ love of Guido Guinicelli, the ‘father of love poets and my own’ (Purg. xxvi. 97); there is no evidence that he knew anything of this part of Plato; in any case, of course, this love is for him excited only by woman. The amore of Empedocles is mentioned in Inf. xii. 42; Empedocles himself, as well as Plato, is in Limbo (Inf. iv. 138).
[35] De Vulg. Eloq. ii. 2.
[36] Purg. xviii. 36.
[37] Canz. xix.
[38] Canz. i.