id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt gf06g161685 Filippo Gianferrari Dante and Thirteenth-Century Latin Education: Reading the Auctores Minores 1904 .txt text/plain 140 5 35 The study analyzes six Latin school texts—the Ilias latina, the Latin Aesop, the Disticha Catonis, the Ecloga Theoduli, Statius's Achilleid, and Claudian's De raptu Proserpinae—and integrates an analysis of selected medieval school books, their commentaries, and glosses to reconstruct these texts' medieval readership. As this study shows, these school authors offered a particular type of classical reception that provided a Christianizing access to the ancient authors and had a major impact on Dante's poetics. cache/gf06g161685.txt txt/gf06g161685.txt