Note 263 — Chapter V · SOME FAMOUS SORCERERS AND MAGICIANS
Arthur Edward Waite translation
Compare Aroux: La Comédie de Dante, vol. ii., p. 33 of his Clef de la Comédie. The Rose is “the Albigensian Church and its doctrines ... transformed into a mystic flower.” Hence the immense vogue of the romance of William of Lorris, despite the anathemas of Gerson.