Divine Comedy, Norton's Translation, Paradise by Dante Alighieri
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[5] That it is taken from the chest in the granary to be burned. [6] Frate Ubertino of Casale, the leader of a party of zealots among the Franciscans, enforced the Rule of the Order with excessive strictness; Matteo, of Acquasparta, general of the Franciscans in 1257, relaxed it. "I am the life of Bonaventura of Bagnoregio, who in great offices always set sinister[1] care behind me. Illuminato and Augustin are here, who were among the first barefoot poor that in the cord made themselves friends to God. Hugh of St. Victor[2] is here with them, and Peter Mangiadore, and Peter of Spain,[3] who down below shines in twelve books; Nathan the prophet, and the Metropolitan Chrysostom,[4] and Anselm,[5] and that Donatus[6] who deigned to set his hand to the first art; Raban[7] is here, and at my side shines the Calabrian abbot Joachim,[8] endowed with prophetic spirit. [1] Sinister, that is, temporal. [2] Hugh (1097-1141), a noted schoolman, of the famous monastery of St. Victor at Paris. [3] Peter Mangiador, or Comestor, "the Eater," so called as being |
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