of the Canzoniere, I. of the Convito.
Dante cites the first verse of this Canzone, Paradiso, VIII. 37.
[161] How Dante himself could allegorize even historical personages
may be seen in a curious passage of the Convito (Tr. IV. c. 28),
where, commenting on a passage of Lucan, he treats Martia and Cato as
mere figures of speech.
[162] II. of the Canzoniere. See Fraticelli's preface.
[163] Don Quixote, P. II. c. VIII.
[164] De vulgari Eloquio, L. II. c. 2. He says the same of Giraud de
Borneil, many of whose poems are moral and even devotional. See,
particularly, "Al honor Dieu torn en mon chan" (Raynouard, Lex Rom I.
388), "Ben es dregz pos en aital port" (Ib. 393), "Jois sia
comensamens" (Ib. 395), and "Be veg e conosc e say" (Ib. 398).
Another of his poems ("Ar ai grant joy," Raynouard, Choix, III. 304)
may _possibly_ be a mystical profession of love for the Blessed
Virgin, for whom, as Dante tells us, Beatrice had a special devotion.
[165] Convito, Tr. III. c. 14. In the same chapter is perhaps an
explanation of the two rather difficult verses which follow that in
which the _verace speglio_ is spoken of (Paradise, XXVI. 107, 108).
"Che fa di se pareglie l' altre cose
E nulla face lui di se pareglio.
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