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THE COMMEDIA AND CANZONIERE 

 OF DANTE ALIGHIERI 



A New Translation 



WITH BIOGRAPHICAL INTRODUCTION, AND NOTES CRITICAL 

 AND HISTORICAL 



AND TWO PORTRAITS 



By E. H. PLUMPTRE, D.D., Dean of Wells 



Volume I. Life. Hell, Purgatory. 



Volume II. Paradise, Minor Poems. Studies: 



The Genesis and Growth of the Commedi.i. 

 Estimates of Dante. Dante as an Observer 

 and Traveller. Portraits of Dante, &c. 



The Spectator says : — " No man aiming at literary reputation can tbink his education com- 

 plete unless he studies Dante, in translations or in the original. No book about Dante has been 

 published in England that will stand comparison with Dean Plumptre's. He deserves the 

 gratitude of all true lovers of good literature for writing it. We have nothing further to say of it 

 except that, take it for all in all, the only fitting epithet we can find for it is ' noble ' ; and that we 

 do most heartily wish it all the success which it richly deserves. " 



The Saturday Review says: — "The Dean of Wells may be congratulated upon the 



completion of his labour of love In the English rendering of the Paradise, as well as in 



the notes to that portion of the poem, the Dean's profound and intimate acquaintance with the 

 theology of the Middle Ages has given him a great advantage over other translators and com- 

 mentators For students of Dante, the ' Studies ' will be found most valuable and 



interesting. A large quantity of material has been collected and arranged as it only could have 

 been by one thoroughly conversant with his subject, and giving his best abilities and affections to 

 the accomplishment of his work." 



The Record says : — " Conceived in the lofty and generous spirit of a true scholar. Nowhere 

 will the cultivated English Christian find so much help as this work will give him in understanding 

 and enjoying the message of Dante to men. The second volume deepens the impression made by 

 the first. The parts interlace as well as complete each other ; the volumes are two, the book is 

 one. The Dean 'stands on his achievement.' It is no unworthy pedestal." 



The Academy says : — " The whole work is a monument of many years' devoted study ; it is 

 ilkistrated throughout by an unusual range of reading and culture in other fields of literature ; and 

 it is accompanied by a most copious and valuable index of subjects and names." 



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