Dante and His Influence
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217779630
Paperback|9780217779630
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. Excerpt: ... DANTE AND HIS INFLUENCE I DANTE AND HIS TIME Only by taking into consideration the conditions relative to which any great work has been produced can a just idea be had of the proportions of the accomplishment. It will not be amiss then to advert briefly at the outset to the conditions which existed when a little more than six hundred years ago Dante Alighieri had the vision, which, deliberately discarding the language of scholarship, whose champion he had hitherto been, he now--with a loftier aim and a broader scope than the mere scholar's, gave to mankind in the common tongue of Italy, under the name of La Commedia (The Comedy), to which his admiring people some two centuries and a half later added the title: Divine. I-4s--asy-now to cross the sea; yet that voyage of Columbus still surpasses all others. And when Dante Alighieri laid aside the language of scholarship, whose champion, earnest, haughty, and somewhat disdainful he had been, as was his wont, and took the dialects of Italy as the medium of his great message, he mounted to a higher level and with all his learning addressed a wider audience than the scholarship of Florence or Verona or Ravenna or even of Italy and Provence; for he addressed the heart of the World--the heart of Mankind in all succeeding ages and in all climes. From a grammarian he became a creator of a great language, from a provincial partisan he became a crusader in the mighty cause of the Kingdom of God; from a Prior of Florence he became the creator of the national consciousness of a people, and a Prior of mankind; from a charming singer he became a great poet and seer; from a mediaeval scholar he became the herald of a new Dawn, hymning the Passion and Progress of the Human soul, the struggle of Mankind betw...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217779630 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217779638 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.28 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 116 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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