4.1261 Rs: Primus inter pares; S. Bernard & Dante (3/46)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 22 Apr 91 00:49:56 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 1261. Monday, 22 Apr 1991.
(1) Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 00:09:52 EDT (13 lines)
From: Robert Hollander <bobh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: S. Bernard and Dante
(2) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 19:42:40 CST (20 lines)
From: Oliver Phillips <PHILLIPS@UKANVM>
Subject: Primus inter pares
(3) Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 13:46:57 PDT (13 lines)
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 4.1249 Who said?: Primus inter pares; St. Bernard
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 00:09:52 EDT
From: Robert Hollander <bobh@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Subject: S. Bernard and Dante
In response to Paul Pascal (as relayed by Alain G.) concerning Inferno
30.148. Sapegno (and, later, Giacalone) cites the commentary of
Gioachino Berthier to Inferno (he did not get round to the rest of
the COMMEDIA), a voluminous work, published at Fribourg 1892-97. He
is a not much consulted but most interesting commentator. Whether
or not the quotation ("Audire quod turpe est puderi maximo est") is
Bernardine I cannot say. However, Berthier does give a source (which
Sapegno, citing him, does not): _De ordine vitae_. You could look it
up.
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 19:42:40 CST
From: Oliver Phillips <PHILLIPS@UKANVM>
Subject: Primus inter pares
I have searched "primus inter pares" in:
_Thesaurus linguae latinae-; Hans Walther's _Proverbia sententiaeque
Latinitatis Medii Aevi; Walther's posthumous work that extends also
to "recentioris aevi" (but it reaches only 'o'); DuCange's _Glossarium_
and numerous bookshelf lists of quotations. Nothing. Admittedly I have
not yet dug out the old _Sprichwoerter der Roemer_, but shall.
Really, I doubt this is ancient or Medieval. Something in the back of
my mind suggests a neo-Latinist speaking of Cromwell or even of George
Washington.
Oliver Phillips
Classics
University of Kansas
PHILLIPS@UKANVM
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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 91 13:46:57 PDT
From: cbf@athena.berkeley.edu (Charles Faulhaber)
Subject: Re: 4.1249 Who said?: Primus inter pares; St. Bernard (2/37)
On St. Bernard I have nothing genuinely helpful to add except
the observation that it might be useful to look at the MS
and early printed edition attributions of works to St. Bernard.
There was a lot of it. E.g., the De infantia Salvatoris, the
apocryphal boyhood of Christ, is attributed to him in some
incunabula editions.
Charles Faulhaber
UC Berkeley