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...geography but by its heritage: Greek art and intellect, Roman law and government, the Christian religion. It is the heir to England's Magna Charta, to France's cathedrals (and France's revolution), Italy's Renaissance and Germany's Reformation, to Don Quixote, the Divina Commedia, the Nordic sagas. Lacking a fixed geographical border, it has included the Slavs and Magyars of Eastern Europe when they chose to accept the European heritage. It has never included more than the fringes of Russia...
Giustizia mosse il mio alto Fattore; fecemi la divina Potestate, la somma Sapienza e il primo Amore. . . . Lasciate ogni speranza qui voi ch'en-trate...
...jury of competent literati could be panelled and polled on the question "What is the world's No. 1 Poem?" they might have some difficulty in arriving at a verdict. But certainly many a vote would be cast for the Divina Commedia of Dante. Unread in these days except by amateurs of literature or professional students, this Catholic epic is one of the boasted glories of Italy. Many a schoolboy has heard of Dante and his Beatrice, could even recognize a picture of the poet, but no one knows much about his actual life. Biographer Papini, adducing no factual...
...Marcel Francon, to aid him in the preparation of an edition of "The Poetry of Marguerite d'Autriche"; Professor Charles H. Grandgent, (for Division of Modern Languages) for the publication of Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, for a new edition of Dante's Divina Commedia; Professor W. C. Greene, for the completion of the book "The Achievement of Rome"; C. N. Greenough, for further work on the "Bibliography of Prose Fiction"; C. B. Gulick, for Harvard Studies in Classical Philology...
...Convivio. 4. A discussion of the authorship of H. Flore. 5. A study of Dante's influence upon Eng- lish literature. 6. The relation of Dante's theological doctrines to the present teachings of the Church of Rome. 7. The main reasons for the increase of interest in the Divina Commedia during the past fifty years. 8. The relation of modern scientific discovery to Dante's conception of the divine order of the universe. 9. Dante and Cecco d'Ascoli. 10. A study of the decline of Dante's influence in Italy in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. 11. Modern...