... explicitly imparts that he trusts Virgil's truths about Dido "a vindictive woman possessed by sheer madness and tortured by her unfulfilled carnal desire and worldly appetites "his allusion to Dante in line 450 may provide a favourable ground for speculations. Reporting on Aeneas' descent to hell, Geffrey recommends his reader/listener further to consult the works of ... Dante, Virgil and Claudian on the topic of hell: Which, who so willeth for to knowe, He moste rede many a rowe On Virgile or on Claudian Or Daunte, that hit tellen ... in the House of Fame in the presence of the two c...

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