Dante Alighieri, Apostle of Freedom

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Lonsdale Ragg. Dante Alighieri, Apostle of Freedom

Dante Alighieri, Apostle of Freedom

Table of Contents

AUTHOR’S PREFACE

DANTE ALIGHIERI

PROLOGUE. DANTE, APOSTLE OF LOVE

THE POET OF LOVE

Chapter I. DANTE AND THE REDEMPTION OF ITALY

II. DANTE AND POLITICAL LIBERTY

III. WIT AND HUMOUR IN DANTE

IV. DANTE AND MEDIAEVAL THOUGHT

V. DANTE AND MODERN EDUCATIONAL PRINCIPLES

III

VI. DANTE AND ISLAM (As represented by “The Gospel of Barnabas”)

VII. DANTE AND THE CASENTINO

VIII. THE LAST CRUSADE

APPENDICES

APPENDIX I. ANTONIO MASCHIO AND THE CELEBRATION OF 1865

APPENDIX II. DANTE AND THE POPE

APPENDIX III. DANTE THE POET

Footnote

INDEX. PROPER NAMES, ETC

REFERENCES TO DANTE’S WORKS

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Lonsdale Ragg

War-time and Peace-time Essays

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I have by me a book which corroborates very strongly—for the sixties at least—Witte’s contention that Young Italy consciously draws her patriotic inspiration from Dante. Some few years ago I picked up in Venice a bound copy of the Giornale del Centenario di Dante Allighieri, of which the first number was published in Florence on February 10th, 1864, and the 48th on May 31st, 1865. There should by rights have been two more numbers, published after an interval, with Index and Frontispiece. Whether these ever appeared in fact, I have not been able to discover. My copy concludes with Number 48, which describes the Festival, to which the year’s publication was planned to lead up—the Feste Dantesche held in Piazza Sta Croce, in May, 1865, the six hundredth anniversary of the Poet’s birth. In that year Florence became the temporary capital of an Italy free and united, but still barred out from Rome by French bayonets; and she signalised the occasion by welcoming back in spirit her exiled Son to the “Bello ovile,” where as a lamb he had slept,[28] when the Re Galantuomo himself unveiled the Poet’s statue in the Piazza. A quaint woodcut of the ceremony adorns the volume.[29]

The successive numbers of this Giornale, with their varied contributions to the study and appreciation of the Poet—contributions drawn from every part of the Peninsula—bear eloquent testimony to the widespread feeling among the Italian patriots of that epoch, that Dante was rightly to be acclaimed Pater Patriae.

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