Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1
Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1
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by his order. But this does not acquit him of the cruelty for which he
has been praised by Dante. He joined in the sanguinary persecution of
the Albigenses.]
[Footnote: 3 It is entitled, "Italy, Austria, and the Pope;" and is full, not only of the eloquence of zeal, and of evidences of intellectual power, but of the most curious and instructive information.]
CONTENTS
OF
THE FIRST VOLUME.
DANTE.
CRITICAL NOTICE OF HIS LIFE AND GENIUS
THE ITALIAN PILGRIMS PROGRESS
I. The Journey through Hell II. Purgatory. III. Heaven
PULCI.
CRITICAL NOTICE OF HIS LIFE AND GENIUS
HUMOURS OF GIANTS
THE BATTLE OF RONCESVALLES
APPENDIX.
I. Story of Paulo and Francesca. Translation.
II. Accounts given by different writers of the circumstances relating to Paulo and Fr
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