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Æschylus Alighieri allegory amore angel Arezzo beauty Bianchi Boccaccio Boniface Cacciaguida called Cantica canto CARLYLE celestial century Cerchi Charles of Anjou Chè chivalry Church Cino Comadia Convito Crusade Dante Dante's Dante's poem death definite describe Divine Comedy Donati dream earth Emperor epic Epistle eternal exile eyes factions faith feudal Florence Florentines Frederick genius Genoa grotesque Guelf and Ghibelline Guido Guido Cavalcanti heart heaven Hell Holy honour human ideal imagination Inferno Italian Italy lady language less lines lived Lombard Malebolge mediæval ment Milton modern moral nation Neri never noble occhi pageant painting Papacy Paradiso passage passion Petrarch Phlegethon picture Piero Pisa Pistoja Podestà poet poet's poetry political Pope Provence Purgatorio Roman Rome Sicily simile sonnet Sordello soul spheres spirit splendour sublime symbol thou thought Veltro Venice Virgil Virgil and Beatrice virtue vision Vita Nuova whole words
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Page 138 - Quegli ch' usurpa in terra il luogo mio, ii luogo mio, il luogo mio, che vaca Nella presenza del Figliuol di Dio, Fatto ha del cimiterio mio cloaca, Del sangue e della puzza, onde il perverso, Che cadde di quassù, laggiù si placa.
Page 233 - He was the congregator of those great spirits who presided over the resurrection of learning; the Lucifer of that starry flock which in the thirteenth century shone forth from republican Italy, as from a heaven, into the darkness of the benighted world.
Page 189 - They passed, and many a region dolorous, O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death...
Page 92 - Homer was the first and Dante the second epic poet : that is, the second poet, the series of whose creations bore a defined and intelligible relation to the knowledge and sentiment and religion of the age in which he lived, and of the ages which followed it, developing itself in correspondence with their development.
Page 165 - Venimmo a lei : o anima Lombarda, Come ti stavi altera e disdegnosa, E nel muover degli occhi onesta e tarda ! Ella non ci diceva alcuna cosa; Ma lasciavane gir, solo guardando, A guisa di leon quando si posa. Pur Virgilio si trasse a lei, pregando Che ne mostrasse la miglior salita : E quella non rispose al suo dimando; Ma di nostro paese e della vita C...
Page 167 - Facesti, come quei, che va di notte, Che porta il lume dietro, e se non giova: Ma dopo sé fa le persone dotte, •,•• ' Quando dicesti : Secol si rinnuova, Torna giustizia, e primo tempo umano, E progenie discende dal Ciel nuova.
Page 192 - E s' ella d' elefanti e di balene Non si pente ; chi guarda sottilmente, Più giusta e più discreta la ne tiene : Ché dove l' argomento della mente S' aggiunge al mal volere, ed alla possa, Nessun riparo vi può far la gente. La faccia sua mi parea lunga e grossa Come la pina di san Pietro a Roma : E a sua proporzione eran l' altr
Page 133 - Poi che i vicini a te punir son lenti, Muovasi la Capraia, e la Gorgona, E faccian siepe ad Arno in su la foce, Sì ch...
Page 36 - Her dress, on that day, was of a most noble colour, a subdued and goodly crimson, girdled and adorned in such sort as best suited with 31 her very tender age. At that moment, I say most truly that the spirit of life, which hath its dwelling in the secretest chamber of the heart, began to tremble so violently that the least pulses of my body shook therewith ; and in trembling it said these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi (Here is a deity stronger than I; who, coming, shall...
Page 257 - I have it in my heart to serve God so That into Paradise I shall repair, — The holy place through the which everywhere I have heard say that joy and solace flow. Without my lady I were loath to go, — She who has the bright face and the bright hair ; Because if she were absent, I being there, My pleasure would be less than naught, I know.
Bibliographic information
| Title | An Introduction to the Study of Dante |
| Author | John Addington Symonds |
| Publisher | Smith, Elder, 1872 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 11 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 271 pages |
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