Читать книгу Gesammelte Aufsätze zur romanischen Philologie – Studienausgabe. Herausgegeben und ergänzt um Aufsätze, Primärbibliographie und Nachwort von Matthias Bormuth und Martin Vialon онлайн

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More than fifty years ago Paget ToynbeeToynbee, P. discovered that Rahab, the harlot in Joshua, chs. 2 and 6, who holds a very distinguished place in the heaven of Venus (Par. 9, 115–126), is to be considered as a type of the Church. He published his discovery, based on passages from IsidorusIsidor v. Sevilla and Petrus ComestorPetrus Comestor, in The Academy of September 12, 1894, p. 216; he also stressed the fact that Rahab is one of the ancestors of Christ (Matth.Matthäus (Evangelist) 1, 5). E. RostagnoRostagno, E. gave an account of Toynbee’s article in Bullettino, II, 94; this account only is available to me at the moment. There cannot be the slightest doubt that Toynbee was right, and that his discovery is indispensable for the understanding of DanteDante’s verses. Nevertheless, it does not seem to have penetrated into all of the important commentaries and commented editions. ZingarelliZingarelli, N. (DanteDante, 3a ed., p. 1205) and H. Flanders DunbarFlanders Dunbar, H. (Symbolism, p. 54) developed it further, and it is recorded in the edition CasiniCasini, T.-BarbiBarbi, M.; but the ninth edition of ScartazziniScartazzini, G. A.-VandelliVandelli, G. (1932) still ignores it. The verses in question are the following: