...they greet me thus, and well they judge.” So I beheld united the bright school Of him the monarch of sublimest song, That o’er the others like an... ..., and those returning the other. v. 50. Venedico.] Venedico Caccianimico, a Bolognese, who prevailed on his sister Ghisola to prostitute herself to O... ... verdure, if an age Less bright succeed not! Cimabue thought To lord it over painting’s field; and now The cry is Giotto’s, and his name eclips’d. Thu... ...to reach it?”—”To the end That thou mayst know,” she answer’d straight, “the school, That thou hast follow’d; and how far behind, When following my di... ...n a pupil of Oderigi’s. v. 93. Cimabue.] Giovanni Cimabue, the restorer of painting, was born at Florence, of a noble family, in 1240, and died in 1... ...hy fill. But since thou hast on earth Heard vain disputers, reasoners in the schools, Canvas the’ angelic nature, and dispute Its powers of apprehensi...