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In addition to the works cited by Otfried, a couple of hours at the library yesterday turned up the following on Dante's knowledge of the Policraticus. None of them, unfortunately, address the issues of transmission raised in the last two posts: Domenico Comparetti, Vergil in the Middle Ages, 2nd ed., tr. E. F. M. Benecke (1895; repr. with an introduction by Jan M. Ziolkowski, Princeton, 1997), pp. 211-12. Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948), tr. Willard Trask, Bollingen Library 36 (1953; repr. New York, 1964), pp. 364-65 n. 47 Hermann Gmelin, "Il X canto del Purgatorio," in Letture dantesche, ed. Giovanni Getto, 3 vols. (Florence, 1955-61), pp. 205-14, at 211. Paul Renucci, Dante disciple et juge du monde Gréco-latin, Les classiques de l'humanisme (Paris, 1954), pp. 104, 180 n. 603-04. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- David Wilson-Okamura http://www.virgil.org [log in to unmask] University of Chicago Online Virgil discussion, bibliography & links ----------------------------------------------------------------------- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%