Abstract
ONG STUDY and great love have given Dante's continuing pubL lic a measure of understanding of the Divine Comedy's relationship to the Christian and pagan works which preceded it. And although the large indebtedness which the later poet confesses to Virgil (il lungo studio e '1 grande amore / che m'ha fatto cercar lo tuo volume -Inf. I, 83-84), both in general and in particular, has been frequently discussed, readings of the Comnmedia are likely to continue to suggest yet undiscovered reciprocities between earlier works and Dante's poem. Among recent studies, one of the most interesting is by the late Ulrich Leo, who argues that ... Dante, while writing the last chapters of the fourth book of the Convivio and of the fragment of the De Vulgari eloquentia, is evidently under the influence of having reread and understood more personally than before the Aeneid along with other Latin poetry (p. 45).1 Leo, in discussing the substantial as well
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