The Vision of Hell (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Vision of Hell It is a somewhat remarkable circumstance that outside of his own country Dante has nowhere been so much read as in England. Next to Italy, England possesses by far the largest number of Manuscripts of his great poem, many of which have, no doubt, been in the country from early times. Our own poet, Chaucer, born seven years after Dante´s death, quotes him several times by name, and borrows from him frequently. Many instances of this will be found duly recorded in the notes to the present work. One of the most interesting of the early commentaries on the Divine Comedy was written at the request of the English Bishops of Salisbury and Bath and Wells, by the Italian Bishop of Rimini, whom they met at the Council of Constance. Spenser knew Dante, undoubtedly, and Milton was evidently very familiar with his works. No actual translation into English, however, appears to have existed till the end of the last century, when the Rev. Henry Boyd produced a version which cannot be regarded as satisfactory. In 1805 the Rev. H. F. Cary, librarian at the British Museum, published a translation in blank verse of the first seventeen Cantos of the Inferno, following it up by other fragmentary issues until the whole appeared complete in three small volumes in 1814. Since then translations innumerable of the whole poem, or portions, have appeared in every sort of metre and in prose; but it is safe to say that Cary´s holds its own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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