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Article: Benvenutus Grassus; The Wonderful Art of the Eye: A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation of his `De probatissima arte oculorum'.(Review)
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- September 22, 1998
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Benvenutus Grassus; The Wonderful Art of the Eye: A Critical Edition of the Middle English Translation of his `De probatissima arte oculorum', ed. L. M. Eldredge (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1996). 350 pp. ISBN 0-8701-365-9. $24.95.
Medievalists will welcome L. M. Eldredge's clear and careful edition of this important text. The Wonderful Art of the Eye is the Middle English translation of De probatissima arte oculorum of Benvenutus Grassus, a Latin writer probably of Italian origin who, the editor conjectures, flourished around the end of the thirteenth century. Light was the first of God's creations, and held a nearly boundless ...