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Valla's Comparatio is lost, but his notes in his working copy of Quintilian, MS Lat. As Sidney learned from Johann Sturm (1507-89), his one-time teacher at the Strasbourg academy and subsequently his lifelong friend, the always cosmopolitan goal of imitation (the comparatio of great literary models) is to eliminate what this republic of letters universally regarded as the most tyrannical of vices, the sin of self-love: "Imitatia ingenium ultra naturae ducit terminos: ut se amare desinat: & meliores admirari incipiat. |
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