IV. p. 116.
[46] Ste. Beuve, Causeries du Lundi, Tome XI. p. 169.
[47] Dict. Phil., art. _Dante_.
[48] Corresp. gen., Oeuvres, Tome LVII. pp. 80, 81.
[49] Essai sur les moeurs, Oeuvres, Tome XVII. pp. 371, 372.
[50] Genie du Christianisme, Cap. IV.
[51] Ed. Lond. 1684, p. 199.
[52] It is worth notice, as a proof of Chaucer's critical judgment,
that he calls Dante "the great poet of Itaille," while in the
"Clerke's Tale" he speaks of Petrarch as a "worthy clerk," as "the
laureat poete" (alluding to the somewhat sentimental ceremony at
Rome), and says that his
"Rhetorike sweete
Enlumined all Itaille of poetry."
[53] It is possible that Sackville may have read the Inferno, and it
is certain that Sir John Harrington had. See the preface to his
translation of the Orlando Furioso.
[54] Second edition, 1800.
[55] Dante Alighieri's lyrische Gedichte, Leipzig, 1842, Theil II.
pp. 4-9.
[56] Vita, p. 97.
[57] Comment on Paradiso, VI.
[58] Jean de Meung had already said,--
"Ge n'en met hors rois ne prelas
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"Qu'il sunt tui serf au menu pueple."
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