 Dante most of all ; wherefore no longer going about to seek his return he passed the heights of the Apennines and departed to Romagna, where his last day, that was to put an end to all his toils, awaited him. In those times was Lord of Ravenna (a famous...  Ravenna: A Study - Page 222by Edward Hutton - 1913 - 300 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Dante Alighieri, Philip Henry Wicksteed, Edmund G. Gardner - 1902 - 370 pages
...of Giovanni del Virgilio's chief poem.1 Dante had now, as Boccaccio puts it, " departed to Eomagna, where his last day, that was to put an end to all his toils, awaited him." Of the Emilian cities, Bologna was as usual strenuously Guelf, still a free republic though in the... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1904 - 204 pages
...were cast into despair, and Dante most of all ; wherefore no longer going about to seek his return he passed the heights of the Apennines and departed...skilled in the liberal arts and held men of worth in highest honour, especially such as excelled others in knowledge. And when it came to his ears that... | |
 | Christopher Hare, Marian Andrews - 1905 - 454 pages
...solitude Of the pine forest and the silent shore Which bounds Ravenna's immemorial wood." (" So Dante departed to Romagna, where his last day, that was to put an end to all his toils, awaited him.") BOCCACCIO. CHAPTER XIX THE PILGRIM'S GOAL " Vago già di cercar dentro e dintorno la divina foresta... | |
 | Christopher Hare - 1905 - 456 pages
...was Lord of Ravenna a noble cavalier whose name was Guido Novello da Polenta (made Podesta in 1316) ; he was well skilled in the liberal arts, and held men of worth in highest honour, especially such as excelled others in knowledge. And when it came to his ears that... | |
 | Giovanni Boccaccio - 1907 - 210 pages
...were cast into despair, and Dante most of all ; wherefore no longer going about to seek his return he passed the heights of the Apennines and departed...him. In those times was Lord of Ravenna (a famous and i ancient city of Romagna), a noble cavalier whose name was Guido Novello da Polenta ; he was well... | |
 | Edward Hutton - 1910 - 564 pages
...who were looking to him, and Dante most of all ; wherefore no longer going about to seek his return, he passed the heights of the Apennines and departed...that was to put an end to all his toils awaited him." There in Ravenna ruled Guido Novello da Polenta, who, as Boccaccio says, " did not wait to be requested... | |
 | Edward Hutton - 1926 - 368 pages
...Boccaccio. He begins by telling us that the too early death of the emperor, who was poisoned, as was said, at Buonconvento in southern Tuscany on S. Bartholomew's...arts and held men of worth in the highest honour, especially such as excelled others in knowledge. And when it came to his ears that Dante, beyond all... | |
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