Review of Lord Vernon's Inferno Di Dante1869 - 10 páginas |
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Página 650 - BY APPOINTMENT TO HRH THE PRINCE OF WALES. ALIENS PORTMANTEAUS 37, WEST STRAND, LONDON.
Página 652 - The literary chronology from the sixth to the thirteenth century, which occupies thenextplace inthevolume, is of great interest. It embraces the whole period of the so-called dark ages, from the extinction of the last light of Roman learning in the person of Boethius to the rising of the first and brightest star of modern letters in that of Dante. Many names indeed occur in the interval, but for the most part they are only glow-worm...
Página 653 - Local and personal vanity seized the moment for self-aggrandisement, and although something was done, the performance hardly satisfied anticipation. But to return to Lord Vernon's second volume. It proceeds to give a map of Italy showing its political distribution in the time of Dante, .followed by a disquisition on the condition and state of the country. There is also a full account of the constitution of Florence, and of its ancient topography and public buildings, and of its commercial guilds...
Página 652 - The second volume contains a, most valuable and important collection of original documents and of historical and biographical matter-. There is a complete genealogical tree of the Alighieri family, and a life of Dante, in which all the personal anecdotes preserved of him by tradition are given. Next comes the full text of the sentences by which Florence banished, and threatened with still severer punishment, her most distinguished citizen.
Página 656 - ... tamquam faces decidere, ut incendio earum totus campus arderet. Verebantur dicere, ne deorum ira nos premeret, quod homo Herculis Libertique; vestigia transgredi conatus essem: iussique militi scissas vestes opponere ignibus.
Página 654 - Landino, his early commentator, and represents his monument. The remainder are views of towns or buildings, and of landscapes, or else are imaginative illustrations of passages in the poem after the designs of Mr. Kirkup. These have a positive merit of their own, and possess the still further merit of not attempting too much by endeavouring to reproduce the poet's inventions in ambitious equality, in another department of art.
Página 651 - Vernon has left the most sumptuous of his many and important contributions to the illustration of Dante, and the work is unquestionably one of the very finest that has ever been privately printed.