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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1867 edition. Excerpt: ... for this reason does the smallest round Seal with its signet Sodom and Cahors." 4. Guizzante is not Ghent, but Cadsand, an island opposite LEcluse, where the great canal of Bruges enters the sea. A canal thus flowing into the sea, the dikes on either margin uniting with the sea-dikes, gives a perfect image of this part of the Inferno. Lodovico Guicciardini in his Descrittione di tum" i Paesi Bassi (1581), p.416 speaking of Cadsand, says: "This is the very place of wlllel our great poet Dante makes mention in the fifteenth chapter of the Inferno, calling it incorrectly, perhaps by error of the press, Guizzante; where still at the present day great repairs are continually made upon the dikes, because here, and in the environs towards Bruges, the flood, or I should rather say the tide, on account of the situation and lowness of the land, has very great power, particularly during a northwest wind." 5. These lines recall Goldsmiths description in the Traveller: --"Methinks her patient sons before me stand, Where the broad ocean leans against the land, And, sedulous to stop the coming tide, Lift the tall rarnpires artificial pride. Onward, methinks, and diligently slow The firm connected bulwark seems to grow; Spreads its long arms amidst the watery roar, Scoops out an empire and usurps the shore." 9. That part of the Alps in which the Brenta rises. 29. The reading la mia seems preferable to la mano, and is justified by line 45. 30. Brunetto Latini, Dantes friend and teacher. Villani thus speaks of him, Cronica, VIII. 10: "In this year 1294 died in Florence a worthy citizen, whose name was Ser Brunetto Latini, who was a great philosopher and perfect master of...
| ISBN-13 | 9781152884892 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1152884891 |
| Weight | 0.84 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.58 In |
| List Price | $22.81 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 254 pages |
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| Published On | 2010-01-01 |
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