The Tuscan & Venetian artists, their thought & work (1904)
Rea, Hope 1860- · London, J. M. Dent · leaf 221
st, is the poet Dante. In his Convito, a bookpart prose, part verse, he writes as follows:— We should know that books (or doctrine) can be under-stood and ought to be explained in four principal senses.One is called literal, and this it is which goes no further thanthe letter, such as the simple… … THE COMPARATIVE TREATMENT 151 Orpheus with his lute tamed wUd beasts, and moved treesand rocks, which means that the wise man, with the instru-ment of his voice, softens and humbles cruel hearts, andmoves at his will those who live neither for science nor forart, and those who, having no rational…
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