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We must not be misled by his exclusive references to poesia, as closer observation shows that he means thereby the whole mental activity of the poet-scholars.
No conviction was more firmly rooted in the popular mind than that antiquity was the highest title to glory which Italy possessed. There was a symbolical ceremony familiar to this generation of poet-scholars which lasted on into the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, though losing the higher sentiment which inspired it the coronation of the poets with the laurel wreath.
No conviction was more firmly rooted in the popular mind than that antiquity was the highest title to glory which Italy possessed. There was a symbolical ceremony peculiar to the first generation of poet-scholars which lasted on into the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, though losing the higher sentiment which inspired it the coronation of the poets with the laurel wreath.
Paul II was the first to dread and mistrust the culture of his secretaries, and his three successors, Sixtus, Innocent, and Alexander, accepted dedications and allowed themselves to be sung to the hearts' content of the poets there even existed a 'Borgiad', probably in hexameters but were too busy elsewhere, and too occupied in seeking other foundations for their power, to trouble themselves much about the poet-scholars.
Paul II was the first to dread and mistrust the culture of his secretaries, and his three successors, Sixtus, Innocent, and Alexander, accepted dedications and allowed themselves to be sung to the hearts' content of the poets there even existed a 'Borgiad, probably in hexameter but were too busy elsewhere, and too occupied in seeking other foundations for their power, to trouble themselves much about the poet-scholars.
One of these, 'De Genealogia Deorum, contains in the fourteenth and fifteenth books a remarkable appendix, in which he discusses the position of the then youthful humanism with regard to the age. We must not be misled by his exclusive references to 'poesie, as closer observation shows that he means thereby the whole mental activity of the poet-scholars.
And in his great poem he firmly maintains the emptiness of fame, although in a manner which betrays that his heart was not free from the longing for it. The new race of poet-scholars which arose soon after Dante quickly made themselves masters of this fresh tendency.
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