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Thirteen centuries earlier the Roman people had unified themselves in monarchism, unifying, at the same time practically all of the known world under their rule. About nine centuries be- had collapsed; then northern conquerors revive the dead and to restore the ancient empire in the shape of a Christian, universal, and perpetual monarchy. They had failed. At the time of Dante the medieval Roman Empire was already a lamentable ruin, upon whose rotting framework the new3 spontaneous breeds of life, national states and communes, wildly grew.

Fear, a remnant of juvenile morbidity, together with ambition. But irreverence, caused Dante to shrink before that write a A own primacy. pushed him to strive for his new language, not yet honoured by first-rate poets, fitted the reand of his ambition. Then he quirements both of his timidity choice. The language he instinctive his on to repressible pride rationalizing passed which he had first adopted was indeed the Florentine vernacular, learned to stammer on his mother's lap 5 whatever elements he added from his experience as an exile, wandering over divers as a Latin scholar, regions of Central and Northern Italy, or to justify the pretence of having shaped, or a celestial discovered, language of his own.

But this truth, obvious as it is, could never have reached Dante's mind. True it is also that outstanding Roman writers during the first century of the Empire bewailed the loss of republican liberty and portrayed the emperors as criminals and wretches. But Dante sealed his ears to whatever of such testimonies might have reached them and stood by the Virgil whom he worshipped as the only rewhatever had happened in the ancient world 5 had Virgil superabundantly praised Augustus as the founder of the Empire, as the announcer of a new Golden Age.

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