The Life and Works of Dante Allighieri: Being an Introduction to the Study of the Divina Commedia (Classic Reprint)

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It should be understood that, in the narrative system which we have followed in the exposition of the Divine Comedy. We are giving merely a de scriptive account of the contents of each part. Our own comments, interspersed as they are through the poet's narrative, touch only the salient features of each canto. We might have made them far more prolix and have quoted on almost every point number less opinions and authorities; but we doubt if we should thereby have made them more useful or more exact.

The fact that we have passed over in silence the authenticity of the treatise De Aqua et Terra does not by any means imply that we fail to realise its importance. As we believe the work to be spurious it had no right to a place in our volume. Dr. Moore's defence has not shaken our conviction; and we hope to find some favourable Opportunity of showing that Dr. Moore can be met even on his own ground.

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