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Dante, Studies and Researches (Classic Reprint)
Dante Studies and Researches - Classic Reprint Author:Paget Jackson Toynbee DANTE AND THE LANCELOT ROMANCE1 — Daktk twice in the DixAna Commedia makes allusion to the old French romance of Lancelot du Lac, each time to the same episode, that of the first guilty meeting between Lancelot and Queen Guenever.2 — 1 Reprinted, with additions, from the Fifth Annual Report (1886) of the Cambridge (U.S.A.) Dante Society. — 2 Dante ... more »alludes to another incident in the Lancelot Romance, in the twenty-eighth chapter of the fourth book "of the Convivio, where he refers to Guido da Montefeltro having, like Lancelot, ended his days in a monastery. Comparing the return of the noble soul to God after death to the return of a ship from the high seas into port, he says: " Oh miseri e vili che colle vele alte correte a questo porto: e la dove dovreste riposare, per lo impeto del vento iompete, e perdite voi medesimi la ove tanto camminato avete 1 Cetto il cavahere Lanci-lotto non voile entrare colle vele alte, ne il nobilissimo nostro Latino Guido Montefeltrano. Bene questi nobili c
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CONTENTS; PAOE8; Preface v-vi; Dante and the Lancelot Romance 1-37; SomB obligations of Dante to Albertus Magnus 38-55; Dante's obligations to the Ekmenta Astronomica of Alfraganus; (chiefly in the Vita Nuova and Convivio) 50-77; Dante's theories as to the Spots on the Moon 78-86; Dante's references to Pythagoras 87-96; Dante's Latin Dictionary (the Magna Derivationes of Uguccione; da Pisa), 97-114; Dante's reference to Tartar Cloths (Inferno, xvii 14-17) 115-120 Dante's obligations to the Ormista (the Historia adversttm Paganos; ofOrosius) 121-136; Dante's reference to the Spear of Peleus (Inferno, xxxi 4-6) 137-141; Dante's seven examples of munificence in the Convivio (iv 11) 142-149; Dante and " Seneca Morale " (Inferno, iv 141) 150-156; Professor Rajna's critical text of the De Vulgari« less