Note 46 — Chapter IV · THE TEACHING OF RHETORIC
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The long and intricate history of colores, extending, with that of its Romance cognates, through the middle ages, must be postponed; but its interest may be divined by merely glancing at the successive uses recorded in a few dictionaries. The importance of exploring the term has been urged again by Fletcher in his “True Meaning” of Dante’s Vita Nuova, Romanic Review, XI. 119.