[308] Owen, p. 113. It is to be remembered that Dante also (Convito, ii, 8, 9; iii, 14; iv, 7) exalts Reason; but he uses the word in the old sense of mere mentality—the thinking as distinguished from the sensuous element in man; and he was fierce against all resort to reason as against faith. Petrarch was of course more of a rationalist. As to his philosophic skepticism, see Owen, p. 120. He drew the line only at doubting those things “in which doubt is sacrilege.” Nevertheless he grounded his belief in immortality not on the Christian creed, but on the arguments of the pagans (Burckhardt, p. 546). [↑]
[309] Epist. sine titulo, cited by Renan, Averroès, p. 299. For the phrases put in Averroës’ mouth by Christians, see pp. 294–98. [↑]
[311] Renan, Averroès, pp. 301–15. [↑]
[312] Id. pp. 333–37; Cantù, Gli Eretici d’ltalia, i, 176 and refs. [↑]
[315] Justinger, cited in The Pope and the Council, Eng. tr. p. 298. [↑]
[316] Hardwick, p. 357, note. [↑]
[317] Cp. Bonnechose, Reformers before the the Reformation, Eng. tr. 1844, i, 40–43. [↑]