Dante And Virgil
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Vii, 16-17 (Shadwell's Translation).
How, then, are we to reconcile this tender reverence of the great Master with the real character which, after every allowance, we must assign to the Roman poet? Surely the true and lofty counsellor of Dante is not the flatterer of Caesar, the treacherous friend of Gallus? Was he perhaps not the man Virgil but rather the writer of the Aeneidt Was he some idealized figure, neither the one nor the other?
41 42 DANTE AND VIRGIL Dante's knowledge of the literatur...e of the Virgilian age would not nowadays be considered extensive. With the Odes of Horace, for instance (on which is based some part of our knowledge of the man Virgil), his acquaintance, as we have seen, is very questionable; and Professor Comparetti thinks that Dante had no knowledge of the later represen- tations of Virgil in the writings of Ma- crobius and Fulgentius. 1 Yet there is evidence in the Seventh Canto of the Purgatory: 2 Fur Possa mie per Ottavian sepolte : that he had read the interpolated life of Virgil, attributed to Donatus; and, in the Third Canto of the Purgatorio, there is a reminiscence, if not a loose trans- lation, of the famous epitaph (attributed to Virgil himself) which is quoted in that life: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini pascua, rura, duces : 1 Comparetti, Vergil in the Middle Ages (translated by Be- necke), p.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Vii, 16-17 (Shadwell's Translation).
How, then, are we to reconcile this tender reverence of the great Master with the real character which, after every allowance, we must assign to the Roman poet? Surely the true and lofty counsellor of Dante is not the flatterer of Caesar, the treacherous friend of Gallus? Was he perhaps not the man Virgil but rather the writer of the Aeneidt Was he some idealized figure, neither the one nor the other?
41 42 DANTE AND VIRGIL Dante's knowledge of the literatur...e of the Virgilian age would not nowadays be considered extensive. With the Odes of Horace, for instance (on which is based some part of our knowledge of the man Virgil), his acquaintance, as we have seen, is very questionable; and Professor Comparetti thinks that Dante had no knowledge of the later represen- tations of Virgil in the writings of Ma- crobius and Fulgentius. 1 Yet there is evidence in the Seventh Canto of the Purgatory: 2 Fur Possa mie per Ottavian sepolte : that he had read the interpolated life of Virgil, attributed to Donatus; and, in the Third Canto of the Purgatorio, there is a reminiscence, if not a loose trans- lation, of the famous epitaph (attributed to Virgil himself) which is quoted in that life: Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope ; cecini pascua, rura, duces : 1 Comparetti, Vergil in the Middle Ages (translated by Be- necke), p.
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