Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from A Handbook to Dante
The chief defect of the Italian work is a tendency, on the part of the author, to present Dante otherwise than he was, and otherwise than he wished to be presented to the world, to make a kind of Puritanical Milton out of him, whereas, in fact, he was rather a Catholic, Mediaeval Goethe, a man with many faults and weak nesses, but, withal, a noble, an honest, and a thoroughly earnest man. I have tried, by means of foot-notes, to remedy the defect, at the risk, I am well aware, of being reckoned among the slanderers of Dante. I can hope for sympathy only from the unbiassed lovers of the naked truth.
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