[lbo-talk] Dialogue with the Past (was Liberfals)

Michael Smith mjs at smithbowen.net
Wed Jun 1 13:54:31 PDT 2011

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On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:12:40 -0500 Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:

> Remember Dante joining the "Greats" of the past in the Limbo of
> virtuous pagans?

Oh yes. A really moving moment. Dante with Virgil, and Virgil with Homer...

Così vid'i' adunar la bella scola Di quel segnor de l'altissimo canto Che sovra li altri com'aquila vola.

Lucan seems the odd man out, but they loved the guy in the Middle Ages. Hard to recover that cast of mind.

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