Dante: A Guide to Further StudyP. J. Kennedy, 1921 - 64 pages |
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Alfraganus allegorical angel appears to Dante Arabic Averroës battle of Benevento Beatrice beautiful beloved Blessed Boccaccio Boniface Cacciaguida called Charles of Valois Christ Christian circle citizens comprehension contemporaries Dante and Virgil Dante hears Dante tells darkness death dialect Divine Comedy earth emperor Empyrean exile father Florence Florence's Florentine friars Ghibellines globe Guelf Guido Cavalcanti Guido da Polenta heaven Hell Hohenstaufen human idea infernal regions Inferno Italian Italy journey Latin Lucifer Middle Ages mountain mystic National Dante Committee papal papal jubilee party passion penitents Peter Peter Damian philosophical Pisa planets poem poet poet's Pope portrait probable that Dante prophecy punished Purgatory Ravenna recalled return to Florence river Roman Empire Rome shine side sins songs soul speaks spirits STANFORD story Swabia symbol tain Thomas Aquinas tongue traitor Ugolino universe vernacular verses vision Vita Nuova Whites youthful
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Page 27 - Our poet was of middle height, and after reaching mature years he went somewhat stooping ; his gait was grave and sedate...
Page 44 - While silent is the wind, as it is now. Sitteth the city, wherein I was born, Upon the sea-shore where the Po descends To rest in peace with all his retinue. Love, that on gentle heart doth swiftly seize, Seized this man for the person beautiful That was ta'en from me, and still the mode offends me. Love, that exempts no one beloved from loving, Seized me with pleasure of this man so strongly, That, as thou seest, it doth not yet desert me; Love has conducted us unto one death; Caina waiteth him...
Page 28 - ... his dress was suited to the ripeness of his years ; his face was long, his nose aquiline, his eyes rather large than small, his jaw heavy, and his under lip prominent ; his complexion was dark, and his hair and beard thick, black, and crisp, and his countenance was always sad and thoughtful His manners, whether in public or at home, were wonderfully composed and restrained, and in all his ways he was more courteous and civil than any one else.
Page 14 - Wherefore if it be His pleasure through whom is the life of all things, that my life continue with me a few years, it is my hope that I shall yet write concerning her what hath not before been written of any woman.
Page 52 - In God read understandingly this page, The bones of my dead body still would be At the bridge-head, near unto Benevento, Under the safeguard of the heavy cairn. Now the rain bathes and moveth them the wind...
Page 14 - After this sonnet a wonderful vision appeared to me, in which I saw things which made me resolve to speak no more of this blessed one until I could more worthily treat of her.
Page 52 - I turned me tow'rds him, and looked at him closely; Blond was he, beautiful, and of noble aspect, But one of his eyebrows had a blow divided. When with humility I had disclaimed E'er having seen him, "Now behold!" he said, And showed me high upon his breast a...
Page 60 - ... meet the conditions, and the complexity kept growing with increasingly minute knowledge of the facts. The whole physical universe is spherical, like the earth; it is made up of a series of hollow, transparent spheres, one lying within another, like the skins of an onion; and the earth is its core. Now each of these shell-like spheres, or heavens, — except the two outermost, — contains one solid, visible heavenly body. The very last one has none, and is therefore, entirely transparent in every...
Page 60 - ... advanced far, no very accurate observation being needed to reveal the fact that a simple rotation would not carry the planets into the various positions they occupy. Complex orbits were desired to meet the conditions, and the complexity kept growing with increasingly minute knowledge of the facts. The whole physical universe is spherical, like the earth; it is made up of a series of hollow, transparent spheres, one lying within another, like the skins of an onion; and the earth is its core. Now...
Page 61 - ... transformed the waters seem. Then, just as maskers with their faces hid, If but their alien semblance they divest, Look other than, a moment since, they did, The shooting sparks, the laughing flowers at rest To loftier revels changed, until I saw Both courts of Heaven in glory manifest. [ Paradise, xxx. ] In more than a thousand circular tiers, around the vast gleaming pool, are seated the blest, in bodily form, as they will appear after the Resurrection. The Lord is shining down on them from...