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Following the order adopted by Orosius (4dr. Paganos, I, 2)
Brunetto describes Asia first, as being the most considerable of the three divisions of the world, and then passes to Europe
1. Li Livres dou Tresor, publié par P. Chabaille, Paris, 1863.
2. Brunetto Latinos Levnet og Skrifter Kjobenhavn, 1869; Italian translation by Rodolfo Renier, Florence, 1884.
3. C. Julit Solini Collectanes Rerum Memorabilium, recognovit Th. Mommsen, Berolini, 1864.
BRUNETTO LATINO'S OBLIGATIONS TO SOLINUS 63 and Africa. Solinus takes the better known Europe and Africa first, leaving Asia to the last’. But though Brunetto has not copied Solinus in this particular detail, it will be seen that he has closely followed him in other respects. Indeed it is somewhat surprising to find that he has borrowed from the Collectanea details even of his description of Italy, though he sometimes disguises the fact by substituting a modern name for an old one.
Li Trésors.
Ytaille… ses mileus est es chans de La cité de Riete (p. 162, $ 2):
I. Aum molt grant… ce est Po, que li Grezois apelent Eridaine, mais en latin est il apelez Padus.…. reçoit en soi .xxx. fluns, ct s'en entre en la mer Adriane (p. 162, $ 3).
Et si i est Mont Gibel, qui tozjors giete feu par. ii. bouches, et neporquant il i a noif desus tozjors ; et si à est la fontaine de Aretuse (p. 164,
Sous.
Italia umbilicum.… in agro Reatino habet (11, 23).
Padus a Graccis dictus Eridanus..
auctus aquarum accessione triginta flumina in Hadriaticum defert mare QU, 25).
In Aetnae vertice hiatus duo sunt, crateres nominati, per quos eructatus erumpit vapor. licet vastis exundet incendiis, apicis canitie perpetua bru
malem detinet faciem (V, 9, 10)...
Adde quod Arethusa fons in hac urbe est (V, 8).
In freto Siculo [sunt] Hephestiac insulae… Itali Vulcanias vocant, nam et ipsa natura soli ignea (VI, 1).
En li mer de Secille sont les isles Vulcaines, qui sont de nature de feu : 164, 5 2).
The first portion of the second half of Brunetto’s chapter on Europe (pp. 165, $ 7-167 $ 2) is for the most part a con-
1. It may be noted that Fazio degli Uberti, in whose Diltamondo Solinus plays much the same part as Virgil does in the Divina Commedia, makes the former say (lib. 1, cap. 8) :
Questo mondo à in tre parti ripartio, Asia, dico, Africa, ed Europa.
Ma perchè Asia piû terreno scopa, Prima ti nomeré le sue pro When, however, Fazio and Solinus start on their journey together, they visit the three continents in the order in which they come in the Collectanea.
2. The figures preceded by $ refer to the paragraphs of the page; though
these are not numbered in Chabaille”s edition they can be readily identified,
25 there are seldom more than four or five paragraphs on each page.
BRUNETTO LATINO'S OBLIGATIONS TO SOLINUS
Li Trésors
En Irlande n'a nul serpent; et por
ce dient li paisant que Là où l'on por-
tast des pierres ou de la terre d'Ir-
lande, nus serpent n'i porroit demo rer (p. 168, S 4).
Sous.
Illic [in Hibernia] nullus anguis GX, 3)... Cum ipsa [Tanatus insula] nullo serpatur angue, asportata inde terra quoquo gentium invecta sit
angues necat (XXII, 8).
From Europe Brunetto crosses over in company with Solinus into Africa, his account of which (pp. 169, $ 5-171, $ 4) is little more than a résumé of six long chapters of the Collec-
tanes (XXIV, 1-XXX, 14).
Li Tresors.
De Espaigne est litrespas en Libe… Cesais Tingi; Mauritaine fenit en haute mer de Egypte et commence cele de Libe (p. 169, S 5).
La mer i [en Libe] est assez plus haute que la terre — decourt sor la terre (p. 169, S 5).
En celui pais est Athlans — jusqu'a la mer Oceane (p. 170, $ 1).
Toute Aufrique commence — la terre ou siet Secile (p. 170, $ 2).
De d se devise [Aufrique] en parties : une qui est apelée la terre Chane}, et l'autre qui s'en va entre sirtes, — sanz certaineté (p. 170, $2).
En ceste maniere dure toute La partie de Aufrique entre Egypté et la mer d'Espaigue. là fluns de Tigre qui engendre alun, devise la terre de Aufrique et cele de Ethiope @- 170, 5 3).
Soumus.
De Hispania excursus in Lybyam XIV, 1)... Caesarea (XXV, 16)...
Tingi... Mauretaniae colonia (XXIV, 1)... in illo ambitu Aegyptium finitur pelagus et Libycum incipit (KXIV, 2).
