A Translation of Dante's Eleven Letters: With Explanatory Notes and a Biographical, Historical, and Critical Comment to the First, Second, Third, Ninth, and Eleventh LettersPrinted at the Riverside Press, 1891 - 284 من الصفحات |
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according Aghinolfo Alberto Alboino Alessandro da Romena Annales Veronenses Arezzo banished Bartoli Bartolommeo Bianchi Bishop of Luni Boccaccio Boniface Brescia brother Bruni Cæsar called Cangrande captain Cardinal castle cause Cerchi Charles of Valois Clement Convito Corrado Corso Corso Donati Count of Romena Cronica Dante Alighieri Dante's death Dino Compagni divine Donati doth doubt elected emperor exiles factions father Florence Florentine Franceschino Fraticelli Ghibellines Giovagallo Guelphs Guelphs and Ghibellines Guidi Guido Guido da Polenta Guidoguerra hath heaven Henry VII honor Italian Italy King Lastra Leonardo Bruni letter Litta Lombard Lord Lungo Lunigiana Marchese di Villafranca Mastino Modigliana Moroello Malaspina Mulazzo Neri noble Oberto Obizzino Obizzo party peace Pistoia podestà Pope Prato regard Rome saith says Scala Scaligeri seems Staffetti thee things thou tion Torri Troya truth Tuscany Verona Veronese viii Villani Vita di Dante Witte words
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الصفحة 211 - Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty. Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets, and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.
الصفحة 164 - HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! How is she become as a widow ! she that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
الصفحة 193 - WHEN Israel went out of Egypt, The house of Jacob from a people of strange language ; Judah was his sanctuary, And Israel his dominion.
الصفحة 212 - ... It is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. 2 I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
الصفحة 244 - And that which most shall weigh upon thy shoulders Will be the bad and foolish company With which into this valley thou shalt fall; For all ingrate, all mad and impious Will they become against thee; but soon after They, and not thou, shall have the forehead scarlet. Of their bestiality their own proceedings Shall furnish proof; so 'twill be well for thee A party to have made thee by thyself.
الصفحة 193 - When Israel came out of Egypt, and the house of Jacob from a people of strange speech, Judaea became his sanctification, Israel his power." For if we inspect the letter alone, the departure of the children of Israel from Egypt in the time of Moses is...
الصفحة 198 - But if the work is considered according to its allegorical meaning, the subject is man, liable to the reward or punishment of Justice, according as through the freedom of the will he is deserving or undeserving.
الصفحة 199 - ... to remove those living in this life from a state of misery, and to bring them to a state of happiness.
الصفحة 188 - I had been, with a certain subjugation of spirit, your wellwisher, so on first seeing you I became both your most devoted servant and your friend. 2. Nor do I think I shall incur the imputation of presumption in assuming the name of friend, as some perchance might object, since those of unequal rank are united by the sacred bond of friendship no less than equals. For if one chooseth to glance at pleasant and profitable friendships, very frequently it will be evident to him that persons of preeminence...
الصفحة 196 - Tragedy is, then, as it were, a goatish song ; that is, foul like a goat, as doth appear in the tragedies of Seneca. Comedy, indeed, beginneth with some adverse circumstances, but its theme hath a happy termination, as doth appear in the comedies of Terence. And hence certain writers were accustomed to say in their salutations in place of a greeting, " a tragic beginning and a comic ending...