Word: italianizer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...from each of whom a fee of $500 is required. As Germany has no station of her own, the Naples station receives a subsidy of from $12,000 to $15,000 from that country, in return for which the German university student are allowed certain privileges at Naples. The Italian government also contributes toward the support of the Naples station. A report is published by the station periodically, of the results of the investigations carried on by different students...
...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...
...most useful edition of the Divine Comedy for students proposing to make a careful study of the poem is that of Scartazzini, with notes in Italian, 3 vols., and Prolegomeni, 1 vol., Leipzig...
...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...
About this time the Italian cities began to increase in material prosperity, and this growth was accompanied by wider intellectual life. During the early part of this thirteenth century, love was the one theme of all the poets, but later they began to treat the old themes with new expression, and also to take up new subjects, such as religion, politics, and morality. The first great poet who wrote in the sweet, new style, as Dante called it, was Guido Guinicelli, whom Dante has honored in his Divine Comedy by calling him his father and the father of his betters...