Conclusion
Justin Haynes
The conclusion suggests that Virgil’s importance was greater in the twelfth century than previously thought. Dante not first to “resuscitate” Virgilianism after Carolingian period, as is often claimed, nor were Renaissance authors first—another thing sometimes claimed. Furthermore, of Virgilian commentary tradition shaping these epics an alternative origin for Platonism has been detected poetry this period. Winthrop Wetherbee had argued <italic>Platonism and Poetry</italic> reason such due so-called Chartrian interest Calcidius’s translation <italic>Timaeus</italic>. research presented book nearly all by Wetherbee—especially Platonic ascent soul creator—can be explained through on <italic>Aeneid</italic> without direct recourse
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