A history of criticism and literary taste in Europe, from the earliest texts to the present day. Volume 1 (of 3), Classical and mediæval criticism

by George Saintsbury

[556]. Qui dulcius subtiliusque poetati vulgariter sunt.

[557]. Cf. note opposite.

[558]. Judicium relinquentes is his own phrase.

[559]. Se cunctis præponendos existimant.

[560]. In hac eradicatione, sive discerptione non immerito eos aliis præponamus.

[561]. Montaninas et rusticanas loquelas.

[562]. Turpiter barbarizant.

[563]. Guidonem, Lapum et unum alium Florentinos. It is needless to say who is unus alius.

[564]. Frondiferos humeros Apennini—a more affectionate if less picturesque touch than Mr Ruskin’s “angry Apennine” and Mr Browning’s “wind-swept gash” thereof.

[565]. Hildebrand of Padua is excepted, as Nitentem divertere a materno et ad curiale vulgare intendere. Two sonnets of his are said to be now extant.