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...times ex-Senator Rauschning's book has a querulousness that suggests not Newman but the Roman ex-Consul Boethius (circa 480-524), who in The Consolation of Philosophy complained of his enemies while awaiting execution after his Rauschningesque failure to cooperate with the Barbarian Ostrogoths. He also has some of Boethius' wordiness, and indulges a nostalgic yearning for his farm and blooded heifers, which he lost when the Nazis raised a sign: Rauschning, traitor to the people, lives here...
...could have quiet. At Hayes-Bickford's he made friends with a student who commuted from Allston and he got to know well the Exchange Student from Lingnan in China. Nights the three of them would get together in his room and discuss Boethins. They had all read Boethius in the original and in the Middle English translation...
...assistance on Volume H of "A Survey of the Manuscripts of Tours", on a book on Virgil's influence on later literature, on an edition of Ovid's Metamorphoses, on a volume to succeed "Founders of the Middle Ages", and on an edition of the Opuscula Sacra of Boethius...
...Study of the vocabulary of Dante's lyrics. 2. The classification of Dante's miscellaneous lyrics. 3. The influence of Boethius on the Vita Nuova and the Convivio. 4. A discussion of the authorship of H. Flore. 5. A study of Dante's influence upon Eng- lish literature. 6. The relation of Dante's theological doctrines to the present teachings of the Church of Rome. 7. The main reasons for the increase of interest in the Divina Commedia during the past fifty years. 8. The relation of modern scientific discovery to Dante's conception of the divine order...
...thirteenth centuries looked back to the immediately preceding centuries--especially the fourth, fifth, and sixth--as to the epoch of the Founders of their civilization. Among these Founders whom Professor Rand has chosen as most significant for later developments are St. Ambrose, the Mystic; St. Jerome, the Humanist; Boethius, the first of the Scholastics; and St. Augustine as a precursor, in some respects, of Dante. He also treats of the New Poetry of Latin Christianity and the New Education in relation to both the past and the future including our own times. The fundamental consideration is the attitude...