A Dictionary of Proper Names and Notable Matters in the Works of Dante (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898 Excerpt: ...Inf. xxii. 31-6 Alichino: Ciampolo. Philalethes renders the name 'Hundekraller, ' i.e. dog-mauler (the sinners being likened to cani, Inf. vi. 19; viii. 42). Graii, Greeks, Mon. ii. 38-. Greoi -. Graius, Greek, Mon. ii. 782. Greci1. Graziano, Gratian (Franciscus Gratianus), founder of the science of canon law; born about the end of Cent, xi at Chiusi in Tuscany (or, according to some, at Carraria near Orvieto). In early life he appears to have become a Benedictine monk, and to have entered the Camaldulian monastery of Classe near Ravenna, whence he afterwards removed to that of San Felice at Bologna. Here he spent many years in the preparation of his great work, the celebrated Concordia discordantium Canonum, better known as the Decretimi Gratiani, which was published between 1140 and 1150. In this work, which forms the first part of the Corpus Juris Canonici, and which he compiled from the Holy Scriptures, the Canons of the Apostles and of the Councils, the Decretals of the Popes, and the writings of the Fathers, Gratian brought into agreement the laws of the ecclesiastical and secular courts. Decretali: Decretaliatae. D. places Gratian among the Doctors of the Church (Spiriti Sapienti), in the Heaven of the Sun, where his spirit is pointed out by St. Thomas Aquinas, who says of him, in allusion to his work on the canon and civil law, l'uno e l'altro foro Aiuto, Par. x. 104-5. Sole, Cielo di. Greci -, the Greeks, Inf. xxvi. 75; Purg. ix. 39; xxii. 88, 108; Par. v. 69; Conv. ii. 439; iv. 2235; Graeci, Canz. xxi. 4; V. E. i. 820; Mon. ii. 11s3' K; Graii, Mon. ii. 380, 7sGreco; Virgil warns D. not to address Ulysses and Diomed (in Bolgia 8 of Circle Vili of Hell), but to leave the speaking to him, as they, being Greeks, might be shy of D.'s...