A Translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Life of Dante With an Introduction and a Note on the Portraits of Dante (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from A Translation of Giovanni Boccaccio's Life of Dante: With an Introduction and a Note on the Portraits of Dante 1 Proern II Dante's Birth and Education III Dante's Love for Beatrice and his Marriage 43 IV Dante's Family Cares, Honors, and Exile V Dante's Flight from Florence and Travels VI His Death and Funeral Honors VII The Florentines Reproached VIII Dante's Appearance, Usages and Habits IX Digression with regard to Poetry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.