[429] Blunt, Reformation of the Church of England, 1892, i, 284, and refs. [↑]
[430] It is noteworthy that French culture affected the very vocabulary of Dante, as it did that of his teacher, Brunetto Latini. Cp. Littré, Etudes sur les barbares et le moyen âge, 3e édit. pp. 399–400. The influence of French literature is further seen in Boccaccio, and in Italian literature in general from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century. Gebhart, pp. 209–21. [↑]
[431] Saintsbury, Short Hist. of French Lit. 1882, p. 57. [↑]
[432] Passage not translated in the old Eng. version. [↑]
[433] Cp. Lenient, pp. 159–60. [↑]
[435] This declaration, as it happens, is put in the mouth of “False-Seeming,” but apparently with no ironical intention. [↑]