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298 Pages·2011·13.73 MB·English

by  Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

MORLEY'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY.
i. SHERIDAN'S PLAYS.
PLAYS FROM MOLIERE.
By English Dramatists.
3- MARLOWE'S FAUSTUS & GOETHE'S FAUST
CHRONICLE OF THE
CID.
RABELAIS' GARGANTUA AND THE HEROIC
5. DEEDS OF PANTAGRUEL.
THE
6. PRINCE. By Machiavelli.
BACON'S ESSAYS.
7-
DE FOE'S JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR.
9< LO ^^,9J!.I9L5MTION AND ON CIVIL
ROBERT
10. BUTLER'S ANALOGY OF RELIGION
IT. DRYDEN'S VIRGIL.
12. SIR WALTER ^rnTTT'C: T\Tm/m^mr n^^r
J^^T
13- HERRICK'S HESPERIDES.
14- COLERIDGE'S TABLE TALK: WITH THE
ANCIENT MARINER AND CHRISTABEL
BOCCACCIO'S DECAMERON.
15-
16. STERNE'S TRISTRAM SHANDY.
HOMER'S
17- MEDIEVALILIAD, Translated by George Chapman.
18. TALES.
19- RASSELAS; AND VOLTAIRE'S
JOH^NSO^S
20. PLAYS AND POEMS BY BEN JONSON.
21. HOBBES'S LEVIATHAN.
22. BUTLER'S HUDIBRAS.
MORE'S
:
24. CAVENDISH'S LIFE OF WOLSEY
25 and 26. DON QUIXOTE (Two Volumes).
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND
SONS,
LONDON, GLASGOW, AND NEW YORK.
MORLEY'S UNIVERSAL LIBRARY.
BURLESQUE PLATS AND POEMS.
27.
DANTE'S DIVINE COMEDY.
28. Longfellow's Trans-
lation.
GOLDSMITH'S VICAR OF WAKEFIELD,
29. PLAYS AND POEMS.
FABLES and PROVERBS fromthe SANSKRIT.
30.
CHARLES LAMB'S ESSAYS OF ELIA.
31.
THE HISTORY OF THOMAS ELLWOOD,
32.
Writtenby Himself.
EMERSON'S ESSAYS, REPRESENTATIVE
33. MEN, AND SOCIETY AND SOLITUDE.
SOUTHEY'S LIFE OF NELSON.
34.
DE QUtNCEY'S OPIUM EATER, SHAKS-
35.
PEARE, GOETHE.
36. STORIES OF IRELAND. By Maria Edgeworth.
37. THE PLATS OF ARISTOPHANES, Translated by
Frere.
38. SPEECHES AND LETTERS. By Edmund Burke.
THOMAS AKEMPIS' IMITATION OF CHRIST.
39.
40. POPULAR SONGS OF IRELAND, Collected by
Thomas Crofton Croker.
41. THE PLAYS of^SSCHYLUS,TranslatedbyR. Potter.
42. GOETHE'S FAUST, the Second Part.
FAMOUS PAMPHLETS.
43.
44. SOPHOCLES, Translated by Faucklin.
TALES OF TERROR AND WONDER.
45.
VESTIGES OF THE NATURAL HISTORY OF
46.
CREATION.
47. THE BARONS' WARS, &c. By Michael Drayton.
COBBETT'S ADVICE TO YOUNG MEN.
48.
THE BANQUET OF DANTE.
49. Translated by Eliza-
beth Price Sayer.
GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND
SONS,
LONDON, GLASGOW, AND NEW YORK.

BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
I
CON VITO
IT.
THE
BANQUET
OF
DANTE ALIGHIERI
TRANSLATED BY
ELIZABETH PRICE SAYER
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY MORLEY
LL.D., 1'KOFESSOK OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AT
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, LONDON
LONDON
GEORGE kOUTLEDGE AND SONS
BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL
GLASGOW AND NEW YORK
1887
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