[62] II, v. 158 sqq.; Oxf. Ed. II, v. 17; p. 379, Bemporad.
[63] Cf. Mon. I, xi. Bemporad, pp. 362-364.
[64] Mon. I, v.
[65] Od. ix. 114-115. θεμιστεύει δὲ ἕκαστος Παίδων ἠδ’ ἀλόγων....
[66] οὐδ’ ἀλλήων ἀλέγουσιν.
[67] Pol. i. 2.
[68] It is interesting to note, in this connection, that when Dante, in his work on “The Vulgar Tongue,” is seeking a Literary Tribunal—a sort of Academy of Letters—he asserts that where there is no Prince, his presence may be supplied by ‘the gracious light of reason.’ There is no king, he says, in Italy, as there is in Germany, to gather to his court poets and literati and form in his own person the centre of a brilliant literary circle; but the members of such a court—the elements of such a circle—are there, though scattered, and they have a bond of union in the gratioso lumine rationis.—V.E. I, xviii. fin; Oxf. p. 389; Bemporad, p. 336.
[69] Mon. I, xi. 78-110. Oxf., p. 346; Bemp., pp. 363 sq.
[70] Ep. vii.
[71] Par. xxx. 133 sqq.