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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: DANTE' earliest of the Italian poets is Ciullo J d' Alcamo, the Sicilian, who lived at the close of the twelfth century. From his day to that of Dante, flourished some thirty rhyme-smiths, among whom Brunetto Latini wrote the most, and Beato Benedetti, Guido Guinicelli, and Fra Guittone d' Arezzo the best. Beato Benedetti is the reputed author of the beautiful Latin hymn of Stabat Mater;v and Guido Guinicelli is the bard whom Dante eulogizes as the writer of Those dulcet lays, all which, as long As of our tongue the beauty does not fade, Shall make us love the very ink that wrote them. The age of Dante was an age of violence, when the law of force prevailed. The Florentines were an heroic people. They declared war by sending a bloody glove to their enemy; and the onset of battle was sounded, not by the blast of trumpets, but by the ringing of a great bell, which was wheeled about the field. Florence was then a republic. So were all the neighboringstates. The spirit of liberty was wild, not easily tamed, not easily subjected to laws. Amid civil discords, family feuds, tavern quarrels, street broils, and the disaffection of the poor towards the rich, it was in vain for Fra Giovanni to preach the Kiss of Peace. Buondelmonte was dragged from his horse and murdered at the base of Mars's statue, in broad day; Ricoverino de' Cerchi had his nose cut off in a ball-room; and the exile of Dante can be traced back to a drunken quarrel between Godfrey Cancellieri and his cousin Amadoro in a tavern at Pistoja. i This essay on Dante which was originally published in Outre- Mer was written as early as 1838. The more fitting place for it would seem to be here. C. W. The pride of human intellect in that age was displayed in the scholastic philosophy. Peter Lombard, the Wis...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217346009 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217346006 |
| Weight | 0.89 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.61 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 270 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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