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...addition to the subjects announced last year for the Dante prize, the following have been proposed for the years 1901-02 and 1902-03: (1) A collection of all the passages in the prose works of Dante directly illustrative of the Divina Commedia, arranged in order as a comment upon it; (2) a critical comment of DeVulgari Eloquio...
...Vocabolario Dantesco, of Blanc, Leipzig, 1852, 8vo. (of which an edition in English is needed), translated into Italian by Carbone, Florence, 1859, and the Concordance of the Divina Commedia, by Professor E. A. Fay, 8vo., 1888, published by Ginn & Co., Boston, for The Dante Society, Cambridge, Mass., are indispensable to the student...
Among the new books by Harvard instructors which are announced by Houghton, Mifflin and Co., are: A Life of Columbus, by Justin Winsor; the seventh of the eight parts of Professor Child's English and Scotch Border Ballads; a prose translation by Professor Norton of the Divina Commedia, and a new edition of the Vita Nuova; The Silva of America by Professor Charles S. Sargent, the first of a series of twelve quarto volumes...
...papers. It needs a good deal of drilling, especially in technical matters; we notice several misprints. It is also given to rather broad statements; as, for instance, that the Canterbury Tales are a liberal translation of the Decameron, and that the "scheme" of Paradise Lost is derived from the "Divina Commedia." The following phrases are remarkable for elegance of expression: "Under the loving surveillance of his blissful guide": "Along the endless corridors of time"; "He (the setting sun) casts his loveliest and softest glances yet once more upon the tops of mountains, or into the mirror of the ocean...
...those who have been thus far apathetic to the charms of our Evening Readings, I would say that it is not now too late to change, and strongly advise all to begin and follow through the course which is just now beginning: Dante's "Vita Nuova" and "Divina Commedia...