[574]. Fustibus et torquibus ad fascem.
[575]. It is thought that Petrarch may have known the German thirteenth-century version in Latin.
[578]. Some have assumed that Dante thinks all high poetry must be “set” in the common sense. He does not say so, and every consideration is against it. The “rhetorical fiction set in music” is obviously the opposition of poetry to prose, and nothing more.
[579]. V. supra, p. [429], and [note].
[580]. Petrus amat, &c.
[581]. Piget me cunctis, &c.
[582]. Laudabilis discretio, &c.
[583]. Ejecta maxima, &c.