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Paris: Jean Petit, 1504, 17 April. Guilielmus de Lavicea Franciscan (d.1310) is the actual author of the Dieta Salutis a popular and influential treatise on virtues and vices. The work Òcontains a great number of comparisons [such as a lustful man is like a stupid merchant who gives a precious thing for a contemptible price... or to a crow, to a foolish warrior, to a horse, and to a ship...] it is one of the most prominent features of the work. Although the number of extended compsrisons or analogies that Guillaume Ôde }LaviceaÕ uses is oerhaps rather exceptional, the trechnique was well established...Ó [The preaching of...  more information