Dante Alighieri, Apostle of Freedom: War-time and Peace-time Essays

by Lonsdale Ragg

[189] Federzoni, Vita di Beatrice Portinari, 2nd Ed., p. 14; and below Dante and Casentino, pp. 148 sq.

[190] Inf. xv. 82-85.

[191] Conv. II, xiv. (xiii.), pp. 265-7, Oxf. Ed.; pp. 193-7, Bemporad.

[192] Benedetto Croce (op. cit.) has much to say on the power of Dante’s poetic genius to transmute the intractable and unpoetical scholastic and didactic matter. See esp. pp. 67, 161.

[193] Dante and Aquinas, p. vii; cf. and pp. 226 sqq., and esp. p. 232.

[194] Wicksteed, loc. cit.

[195] Purg. xxvii. 140, 142. The English renderings are mainly from Tozer’s Translation. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

[196] Epist. x. (xiii.), p. 416, Oxf. Ed.; p. 439, Bemporad. “Locutio vulgaris in qua et muliercule communicant.”

[197] Epist. x. (xiii.) 265 sqq.; p. 417, Oxf. Ed.; p. 440, Bemporad.

[198] Inf. i. 113 sq.