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... Gesta Romanorum ; literally , the Doings of the Romans . The meaning of this title will be understood from the following statement of War- ton , who , in a learned and amusing dissertation , has given a complete analysis of this curious ...
... Gesta Romanorum ; literally , the Doings of the Romans . The meaning of this title will be understood from the following statement of War- ton , who , in a learned and amusing dissertation , has given a complete analysis of this curious ...
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... Gesta . In the dissertation expressly devoted to the work , he gives it as his opinion that , by the Gesta Roma- norum , Korner most probably means only the Roman history in general ; and he adds , " Neither is it possible that this ...
... Gesta . In the dissertation expressly devoted to the work , he gives it as his opinion that , by the Gesta Roma- norum , Korner most probably means only the Roman history in general ; and he adds , " Neither is it possible that this ...
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... Gesta preserved in the Harleian collection in the British Museum . Another of the stories is the ori- ginal of Parnell's Hermit . Warton conceives that he has discovered the author of the Gesta Romanorum to be Petrus Berchorius , or ...
... Gesta preserved in the Harleian collection in the British Museum . Another of the stories is the ori- ginal of Parnell's Hermit . Warton conceives that he has discovered the author of the Gesta Romanorum to be Petrus Berchorius , or ...
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... Gesta . Warton thinks it probable that Berchorius , who was at one time grammatical preceptor to the novices of the Benedictine congregation , or monastery , at Cluni , for whose use he drew up a little tract on Latin prosody , compiled ...
... Gesta . Warton thinks it probable that Berchorius , who was at one time grammatical preceptor to the novices of the Benedictine congregation , or monastery , at Cluni , for whose use he drew up a little tract on Latin prosody , compiled ...
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