408/421 During the ceremony degrees were also conferred. He who had won a prize three times was pronounced a doctor '_en gaye science_,' the name of the poetry of the Provencal Troubadours. This institution, however fantastic, soon became common, through the whole of France."-- _Warton's History of English Poetry_, vol i. p 467.] [Footnote D: I have transferred the following anecdote from Levati's Viaggi di Petrarea (vol.i.p. |