Vergil in the Middle Ages
From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti''s Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from antiquity to Dante." Treating Vergil''s poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, Comparetti seeks to give a complete history of the medieval co...
From its first complete Italian printing in 1872 up to the present day, Domenico Comparetti''s Vergil in the Middle Ages has been acknowledged as a masterpiece, regarded by some critics as "a true and proper history of European consciousness from antiquity to Dante." Treating Vergil''s poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, Comparetti seeks to give a complete history of the medieval co...