Publisher's Synopsis
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. 1894 edition. Excerpt: ... stands virtues. "And" he adds, "may He, Who is the Light, the Life, the Way, and the Truth to all Eternity, vouchsafe to us to pass from the darkness of sin into the Light of Virtue." Benvenuto concludes his commentary with the following lines of his own: "Jamque domos Stygias et tristia regna silentum. Destituens, sublimis agor; jam noctis ab imo Carcere felices rediens extollor ad auras. Vidi ego diversis animarum tartara poenis In circlos distincta novem, lacrymosaque passim Flumina et horribilem ferratis pestibus urbem. Sit tibi, summe Deus, nostrae spes una salutis Gloria et aiternae maneant per secula laudes." Abati, Buoso degli, ii, 320-340 Abb.igli.ito. l' (Bartolommeo di R.inieri dei Folcacchieri), ii, 5'5,5'6 Absalom, son of David, ii, 477, 478 Abyss, the Great, ii, 7, 9; depth and dimensions, i, 558, 559; ', 35. 36 Accidiosi, its meaning perhaps different from that in the " Pur- gatorio," i, 236 Accoccargliene una, a.n expression, ii, 166, 167 Acerbo, peculiar meaning of, ii, 3" Acheron, the river, i, xxxviii, 72, 98,99, 115,482 Achilles, i, 153, 154, 39;,"365; and Peleus, ii, 555, 556 Acisburgum (Asberg), ii, 373, 374 Acone, parish in the Val di Sieve, i, 192 Acquacheta (Falls of the Mon- tone) the, i, 560, 561 Acquasparta, Cardinal, i, 193 Acre, the city of, ii, 421 A cut not siamo a pruovo, its interpretation, i, 395 Adamo da Brescia, ii, 531-548 Adamo, Maestro, addressed as tu by Dante, i, 333 Adige, the r1ver, 1, 374-37 Advent, the Second, i, 30 /Egina, pestilence of, ii, 496, 497 II. Y Aelius Lampridius, historian, ii, 220 Aeneas, i, 21; compared with Dante, 231; not regarded as the messenger from heaven, 289 Aer bruno, /', i, 45 Aesop, his fable of the frog and mouse, ii, 224-226 Age, the Golden, its date..."