PREFACE

CONTENTS

DANTE: HIS TIMES AND HIS WORK

CHAPTER I. THE THIRTEENTH CENTURY

CHAPTER II. GUELFS AND GHIBELINES [8]

CHAPTER III. DANTE'S EARLY DAYS

CHAPTER IV. FLORENTINE AFFAIRS TILL DANTE'S EXILE

CHAPTER V. DANTE'S EXILE

CHAPTER VI. THE "COMMEDIA"

CHAPTER VII. THE MINOR WORKS

APPENDIX I. SOME HINTS TO BEGINNERS

APPENDIX II. DANTE'S USE OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE

BY A. J. BUTLER, M.A. THE PURGATORY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI.

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