This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... OF DANTE. AMONG Dantes manifold titles to honour, the highest and most distinctive is that of being the true founder of Italian literature. The words must not be misunderstood. They certainly do not imply that before Dante no one attempted Italian composition. To assert this would be to falsify ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ... OF DANTE. AMONG Dantes manifold titles to honour, the highest and most distinctive is that of being the true founder of Italian literature. The words must not be misunderstood. They certainly do not imply that before Dante no one attempted Italian composition. To assert this would be to falsify history. It would involve also grave injustice to a number of writers whose example, no less than his own consciousness of power, animated Dante to those grand achievements which have rendered his name immortal. What the phrase does signify is that Dante, both in verse and prose, is the first of Italian authors to whom we can fitly apply the term master The efforts of his predecessors and coevals were all, more or less, tentative, and failed to lift their art wholly out of the region of experiment. They were groping after a perfection which was beyond their reach, beyond even their ken, but which was realised and revealed in the Commedia. As Italy had been the home of the old civilisation, we might expect that she would be the first to rise, phoenix-like, from her ashes, and take her place as leader and guide of the literary movement which sprang up among the peoples of south-western Europe with the consolidation of the new states. If such is our expectation, we are deceived. In the possession or a literature she-was forestalled both by France and Spain, and when at length she does make her debut, it is in the character of a humble follower of Provence. This anomaly may be explained partly by political conditions, which in Italy were less stable than in the sister countries less propitious, therefore, to the cultivation of letters. But it should seem also that her post of privilege as fille afaeeof the Empire was not in this regard beneficial to...
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