[259] The New Teaching, pp. 20, 26 (Prof. Adams).
[260] Purg. xxvii. 139-142.
[261] There is some reason (see below, pp. 121 sqq.) for attributing to a common origin some of the points of resemblance which are noted in the body of this Essay. Professor Foligno, however, like Dr. Parodi (see below, pp. 133 sq.) is convinced of the fallaciousness of all arguments hitherto adduced in favour of direct contact of Dante with Moslem sources—and, in particular, of the reasoning of Professor Asín (p. 133).
[262] The Gospel of Barnabas. Edited and translated from the Italian MS. in the Imperial Library at Vienna by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg. Oxford: 1907.
[263] On this subject, see below, pp.
[264] See Introduction to Oxford Ed., pp. xiii. sq. and xliii.
[265] As for instance in his definition of the word “Pharisee,” “farisseo propio uolle dire cercha DIO nella linggua di chanaam” (Barnabas, 157ᵇ).
[266] Par. i. 56-7. Cf. Barn. 40ᵃ, sq.
[267] Purg. xxviii. 94, etc., cf. Barn. 41ᵇ-43ᵇ.
[268] Barn. 189ᵃ, cf. (for angels) Canz. iv. 24, 25, Par. xx. 102.