[246] _Cf._ _The New Teaching_, p. 40, where Prof. Adams remarks, “The postponing of grammar studies to a comparatively late stage in school life is one of the most striking recognitions of the elementary psychological truths that underlie the principles of teaching.” [247] _Purg._ xviii. esp. 40-43. [248] Acts i. 1. [249] _Inf._ iv. 13-15; _cf._ _Inf._ xvii. 79 (above), and _Purg._ xxvii. 46. [250] _Inf._ iv. 14. [251] _Purg._ iii. 7-9. [252] _New Teaching_, p. 153 (Dr. Rouse). [253] _Inf._ xiii, 28 _sqq._; _Aen._ iii. 22 _sqq._ [254] _Inf._ xii. 114. [255] _Purg._ xxv. 25 _sqq._ [256] _Purg._ xv. 76-78. _Cf._ _Purg._ xviii. 46-48. [257] _Purg._ xxvii. 139 _sqq._ [258] _Inf._ i. 122 _sqq._ [259] _The New Teaching_, pp. 20, 26 (Prof. Adams). [260] _Purg._ xxvii. 139-142. [261] There is some reason (see below, pp. 121 _sqq._) for attributing to a common origin some of the points of resemblance which are noted in the body of this Essay. Professor Foligno, however, like Dr. Parodi (see below, pp. 133 _sq._) is convinced of the fallaciousness of all arguments hitherto adduced in favour of direct contact of Dante with Moslem sources—and, in particular, of the reasoning of Professor Asín (p. 133). [262] _The Gospel of Barnabas._ Edited and translated from the Italian MS. in the Imperial Library at Vienna by Lonsdale and Laura Ragg. Oxford: 1907. [263] On this subject, see below, pp. [264] See Introduction to Oxford Ed., pp. xiii. _sq._ and xliii. [265] As for instance in his definition of the word “Pharisee,” “_farisseo propio uolle dire cercha DIO nella linggua di chanaam_” (_Barnabas_, 157ᵇ). [266] _Par._ i. 56-7. _Cf._ _Barn._ 40ᵃ, _sq._ [267] _Purg._ xxviii. 94, etc., _cf._ _Barn._ 41ᵇ-43ᵇ. [268] _Barn._ 189ᵃ, _cf._ (for angels) Canz. iv. 24, 25, _Par._ xx. 102. [269] _Barn._ 189ᵃ, _Koran_, Surah xlvii. The _original_ source is perhaps _Gen._ ii. 10 _sqq._ [270] _Purg._ xxviii. 25 _sqq._ [271] _Barn._ 187ᵃ, 189ᵃ. [272] _Purg._ xxvii. 134. [273] _Purg._ xxviii. 36. [274] _Purg._ xxviii. 41, 42. [275] _V.E._ i. 7, 10-11. Oxf. p. 382; Bamp. p. 324. [276] 185ᵃ. [277] 185ᵇ. [278] _Par._ xxxi. 97; xxxii. 39. [279] _Par._ xxiii. 71, 72. [280] 190ᵃ. [281] _Par._ xxvi. 64-66. [282] 185ᵇ. [283] _Par._ iii. 70 _sqq._ [284] _Barn._ 189ᵇ. [285] _Par._ iii. 65. [286] _Par._ iii, 82-85. A reviewer of the Oxford Edition (_Guardian_, Aug. 21st, 1907) points out a further significant resemblance between _Par._ xxxi. 7 _sqq._ and _Barn._ 56ᵇ, where it is said of the angels that, “chome appe uenirano intorno per circuito dello nontio di DIO.” [287] _Barn._ 111ᵃ, _cf._ 190ᵇ. [288] 111ᵃ. [289] iiiᵇ, 190ᵇ. [290] 190ᵇ.