Word: comparetti
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...scholars of the Renaissance, which was so baldly contemptuous of the mediaeval tradition, loved to interpret this legend weaving as mere monkery; more detachted observers are willing to admit that it is, above all, a tribute to the rich common life of the middle age. That cage, as Domenico Comparetti has carefully shown, understood and venerated the literary art of Virgil, and its educated men read and preserved the Virgilian manuscripts with a diligence not inferior to our own. The common man today does not believe that Virgil was a thaumaturge; but this testifies not so much to a popular...
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