Word: trivium
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...great significance of the "Paradiso" is progress, which may be specifically defined as the progressive education of the soul: Dante's mediaeval tendencies are exposed in his arrangement of this education in its analogy to the trivium and quadrivium of the scholas- tics. Faith, hope, and charity compose his trivium, and prudence, fortitude, justice, and temperance his quadrivium...