This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and good paternal image, '"Of you, when in the world, from hour to hour, You taught me how man makes himself eternal; And how much I am grateful, while I live Behoves that in my tongue should be discerned.'1 It seems impossible now to discover what exactly 1 Inf. xv. 79-87. it is that lies behind these lines. The view ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: ...and good paternal image, '"Of you, when in the world, from hour to hour, You taught me how man makes himself eternal; And how much I am grateful, while I live Behoves that in my tongue should be discerned.'1 It seems impossible now to discover what exactly 1 Inf. xv. 79-87. it is that lies behind these lines. The view formerly CANTOS held that Brunetto Latini was Dante's schoolmaster v8 or tutor, is now generally abandoned. Mr. Toynbee declares it impossible, ' since he was about fifty-five when Dante was born'; but there seems no great impossibility about it when we remember that he lived till 1294, twenty-nine years after the poet's birth. In any case, it is obvious that Dante held him in the most grateful affection and reverence for having taught him ' how man makes himself eternal, ' whether in the sense of rising into the eternal spiritual life, or, more probably, of gaining the lower eternity of fame. This teacher of Dante was one of the best-known men of his day in Florence. By profession he was, like Dante's father, a notary, and it is to this the title 'Ser' refers.1 He took a promiuent part in public affairs, as ambassador, secretary to the Florentine government, prior, and one of the public orators of the city. 'His influence and authority with the Florentines, ' says Toynbee, ' are attested by the fact that his name appears in no less than thirty-five public documents (between October 21, 1282, and July 22, 1292) as having been consulted by the government on various important matters, and for the most part it is recorded that his advice was followed.' Villani's notice of his death is interesting as showing that he was regarded as the teacher and guide, not of Dante alone, but of the whole city of Florence: 'In the said year 1294 there died in ...
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