Concise Dictionary of Proper Names And Notable Matters in the Works of Dante
Concise Dictionary of Proper Names And Notable Matters in the Works of Dante
Paget Jackson Toynbee
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105 ; the aflSrmative particle si character- istic of their language, Inf. xxxiii. 80; V.N. § 2588. •*2; Conv. i. 108I ; V. E. i. 8*3, 9I3, I oil . their employment of the affirmative si, the Latin sic, an indication that Italian is of earlier date than the ' lingua oi/' or the ' lingua oc ' (i. e. French and Provenyal), to which it is superior Italia 3°7 Italia for two reasons, V. E. i. lo^"'^!' ^^"■^* ; many languages more agree- able and serviceable than theirs, V.E. i. 6^^~* ; their frontie...r one of the W. confines of Europe, V. E. i. 8^'' ; the Sardinians not to be reckoned as Italians, though they have affinities with them, V. E. i. 11*2-4 (cf. Inf. xxii. 65-7) ; reason why poems written by Italians are called Sici- lian, a term which remains as a re- proach to the princes of Italy, V. E. i. I2^~^'; the Roman dialect the ugliest of all their dialects, V.E. i. 1 1^^"!*, while that of the Bolo- gnese is the best, V.E. i. 15^"^- 27—33 . tiieji- manners, customs, and language to be judged by a national, not a provincial, standard, V.
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