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id: 36479
author: Wicksteed, Philip H. (Philip Henry)
title: Dante: Six Sermons
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  [Illustration] LONDON C. KEGAN PAUL & CO., 1 PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1879 (_The rights of translation and of reproduction are reserved_) _PREFACE. AS A CITIZEN OF FLORENCE_ There are probably few competent judges who would hesitate to give Dante a place of honour in the triad of the world's greatest poets; and amongst these three Dante occupies a position wholly his own, peerless and unapproached in history.


id: 16978
author: Slattery, John T. (John Theodore)
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  Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920

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  To Dante sin is not a mere vulgarity or the violation of a social convention or a soft infirmity of the blood. To Dante sin is the greatest evil of the world--not only because it is the source of all other evils, but because it is at once the denaturing of man--the damned are characterized as the woeful people who have lost the good of the understanding (Inf., III, 18), and it is also a defiance of God.


id: 33896
author: Dante Alighieri
title: Dante. An essay. To which is added a translation of De Monarchia.
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  This view satisfied thinkers to the time of Hooker (_E.P._ I. iii.), but was criticised by Bacon, _Nov. Org. The Divine Comedy_ have been corrected using the Italian-English Princeton University Press edition (trans.


id: 8509
author: Lowell, James Russell
title: Among My Books. Second Series
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  He argues the matter through a dozen pages or more, seeking to prove that Milton _must_ have had some practical experience of military drill. It cannot be too often repeated that Dante's Other World is not in its first conception a place of _departed_ spirits.


