A few questions, relating to the recent thread on Virgil and the Fourth Eclogue:
1. What else, besides the Fourth Eclogue, led medieval readers to view Virgil as a proto-Christian prophet? How different is the medieval view from that of, say, the one outlined by Broch in _The Death of Virgil_ (1945)? Judging from the information that I receive from new subscribers, I'd guess that at least a fifth of those who join this group do so because they want to learn more about Virgil and Dante. Has anyone formed an opinion yet of either of the following: 2. Vol. 1 of the new Lectura Dantis (California), ed. Mandelbaum, Oldcorn, and Ross 3. The Durling/Martinez Inferno (rev. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://virgil.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] Macalester College Virgil Tradition: discussion, bibliography, &c. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
