Word: 12mo
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Dates: during 1895-1895
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...Dizionario Dantesco of Poletto Siena, 1885-87, 7 vols., 12mo., and the Enciclopedia Dantesca of Ferrazzi, Bassano, 1865-77 5 vols., 12mo., will often be found extremely useful...
...most important comments for the student are those of the fourteenth century, especially that in the Latin of Benvenutus de Imola, and that in Italian by Francesco da Buti. In his Readings of the Purgatory of Dante, 2 vols., 12mo., London, 1889, the Hon. W. W. Vernon has closely followed and translated Benvenuto's comment to the great benefit of readers unacquainted with Latin...
...best History of Italian Literature is that of Gaspary (2 vols., 8vo.) either in the original German, or in the Italian translation. Bartoli's Storia della Leteratura Italiana, 6 vols., 12mo., the last vol. published in 1889, may also be recommended, but it is diffuse and the judgement of the author is less sound than that of Gaspary...
...book with a similar title by De Sanctis, 2 vols., 12mo., 3d ed., 1879, is of value; but is not free from the faults of the Italian genius...