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the manuscript so as to show what we really do know and can know,
about one of the finest poets that ever lived, sortin’ out what is
ascertainable from what is not ascertainable. How the stuff was first
written down. No autograph stuff, but the earliest copies, and then the
later manuscript editings: some of ’em under the general supervision, or
stimulus, of Lord Medici.
All this may seem very specialized. However I found it of interest, and
were it not for this tiresome war I should be writin’ to Mr. Bird, now
probably Doctor O. Bird, as he was adoin’ his thesis on the above
mentioned comment by del Garbo’s (no relation of Greta’s), to point out
that whatever I said about Guido’s genial thought, his probably having
read some Avicenna, and the general ideas entertained by the better
minds of his time on the subject of LIGHT. That needed some attention
to terminology. I should now want to add to what I printed, and to
correlate it with Aristotle’s Metaphysics, I mean Aristotle’s particular
treaties [treatise] called “Metaphysics,” and that Guido Cavalcanti might
have taken his terminology from it, almost entirely.
del Garbo refers to Aristotle and to the treatise. So mebbe Bird has done
so in any case. But the matter is interesting at least to a small number of
people who think that precise terminology matters; and that that poem
and comment give one a very nice chance for ascertainin’, gettin’ your
idea clearer and more precise, as to the likenesses and differences
between 18th century thought and our own. Have we got better at
thinkin’? Do we think with greater clarity? Or has the so-called program
of science merely got us all cluttered up mentally and pitched us into
greater confusion?
No, the comment on a medieval poem don’t just stop there, any more
than Frobenius’ research just STOPS with some bit of African sculpture,
or with some prehistorical drawin’ on the side of a rock. Grosseteste
writin’ on light, hooks up with the ideogram of the sun and moon at the
start of Confucius’ testament. Incidentally, if medieval bishops in