Note 645 — Chapter VIII · INTELLECT AND FAITH. (continued 2)
Reading edition
Pet. Blesens. Sermo XII., XXXIII.,XXXVIII.—S. Bonavent. Speculi Beatæ Virginis c. i., ii., viii., ix.—The mediæval conception of the Virgin, as the intercessor between God and man and the source of all good, is expressed by Fazio degli Uberti—
“Tu sola mitigasti la discordia Che fu tra Dio e l’ uomo; e tu cagione Sei d’ ogni bene che quaggiù si esordia.”