Vergil in the Middle Ages - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ...and princely families to connect themselves with Rome by legends of their origin, in which they traced back their families, like Augustus and other Romans, to the heroes of Troy and the great names of Roman history17--a tendency on which the greatness of the influence exercised by so popular a work as the Aeneid will be readily understood.18 14 " Urbs aquensis, urbs regalis, Sedes regui principally Prirna regum curia." Cp. Bvcz, The Uoly Roman Empire (ed. 1892), pp. 72, 31?. 15 " Anditoribus usns erat laoialiter fan neque ausus est quisquam coram magistro lingua barbara loqui." Bbono, Vit. S. Adalberti, 5 (ap. Pebtz, Seriptt. rer. Germ., iv. p. 577). It is very common for medieval writers to speak of themselves or their language as barbarous. One need only look at the long notices under the word barbarug in the indices to the various volumes of the Seriptt. rer Germ. Vide also my note on p. 122. " The vast and complicated history of medieval Borne is an inspiring theme alike for the Christian and the freethinker. Gibbon, Papbncobdt, Gbeoorovics and Reumont have studied it from diverse points of view, the two last especially so. Gregorovius, in his work of unfailing delicacy ami acumen, has shown himself, as he was. at once scholar and poet, and has produced a book which even those unacquainted with the subject may read with pleasure. But by none has the fascination exercised by Home over the medieval mind been at once so fully and so vividly described as by Arturo Geaf in his Roma nella memoria e nelle immagiiiazioni del media ceo, Turin (Loescher), 1882-3. 17 Cp. Gbaesse, Die grosien Sagenkreise des Mittelalters, p. 66; Berqsiann, La fascination de Gulfi, p. 27 seq., and Reiffbnbero, Chron. rimfe de Philippei Mouskct, i. p....