Iconografia Dantesca: The Pictorial Representations to Dante's Divine Comedy

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H. Grevel & Company, 1899 - 234 pages
 

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Page 223 - This book is a preservation photocopy. It was produced on Hammennill Laser Print natural white, a 60 If book weight acid-free archival paper which meets the requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (permanence of paper) Preservation photocopying and binding by Acme Bookbinding Chariestown, Massachusetts m
Page 145 - Immediately thereafter follows a second simile: monks are singing to the organ tone, a symbolisation of the lines at the close. " The strains came o'er mine ear, e'en as the sound Of choral voices, that in solemn chant With organ mingle, and now high and clear Come swelling, now float indistinct away.
Page 17 - furrow broad Before you in the wave, that on both sides Equal returns."—PARADISO, II., 1-15 (Gary's translation). How many a miscarried, childish attempt brings these lines back to our memory
Page 124 - nothing else than a copy of Flaxman. Its title runs : The Divine Comedy; or, the Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri. Rendered into English by Frederick Pollock. With fifty illustrations drawn by George Scharf, engraved by Dalziel. London, Chapman & Hall, 1854. With less external success, but with far deeper internal enthusiasm, did one of the friends and pupils of Flaxman approach the
Page 124 - da Giovanni Flaxman. Milan, Vallardi, 1865. Illustrations of the Divine Poem of Dante Alighieri, by John Flaxman. With full description to each engraving, from the translation by HF Gary. London, Bell & Daldy, 1866. Select Compositions from Dante's Divine Drama, designed by John Flaxman, RA, Sculptor. London, Bell & Sons, 1882.
Page 91 - supplicho, offerendomi al divin poeta fare la sepultura sua chondecente e in loco onorevole in questa citta." The request was not granted, and Dante's remains rest still in Ravenna, under the monument raised by Pietro Lombardi's hand.
Page 164 - a sepia drawing of Monte Reggione Castle, near Siena; * and of * Lines 35-40 (Gary's translation). " As with encircling round Of turrets, Montereggion crowns his walls, E'en thus the shore, encompassing the abyss, Was
Page 91 - Revealed the secrets of eternity. Ill did his thankless countrymen repay The fine desire; that which the good and great So often from the insensate many meet, That evil guerdon did our Dante find. But gladly would I, to be such as he, For his hard exile and calamity Forego the happiest fortunes of mankind." II. " How shall we speak of him, for our blind eyes
Page 145 - Plate 39), and 4776 of the Vatican (Bassermann, Plate 38); and at the close of Purgatorio 6 we see a sick man restlessly stretched on his couch (lines 150-53). " If thou remember'st well, and can'st see clear, Thou wilt perceive thyself like a sick wretch Who finds no rest upon her down ; but oft Shifting her side, short respite seeks from pain." In Purgatorio 9 we see the soldiers of
Page 75 - H97—followed closely upon each other. The title of the first runs, " Comento di Christoforo Landino fiorentino sopra la comedia di Danthe Alighieri Poeta fiorentino"; and at the end,

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