Brown, J. Wood (James Wood) · New York, E.P. Dutton and company · leaf 62
d by what Byzantium still knew, and gave them throughSyrian teachers. This early impression did not come from thepoetry of ancient Greece—which the Arabs never learned—it wasformed by her Wisdom, in the works of Aristotle and Plato read intranslations from Syriac versions of the Greek. But,… … THE SPIRIT 43 enough to bring Dante that new inspiration which he, of allFlorentines, was quick to feel. The title of the Vita Nuova was,indeed, better chosen than its author could then have known, forit was the classic spirit that found these new forms and renewed itsyouth in him. If the impulse…
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