id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 34870 Kuhns, Oscar Studies in the Poetry of Italy, Part II. Italian .txt text/plain 50062 3016 79 The translations from Dante's New Life and of the story from time on, becomes the center of the literary and artistic life of Italy. Dante refers to him in the New Life as the "first of his friends," melancholy weighed over the whole later life of Dante; his heart never It is the story of Dante's love for Beatrice Portinari, the daughter of another time he tells how one day he saw a number of pilgrims passing Florence--Dante born 1265; his education; his love for Beatrice; before the poets can reach it night comes on, and Dante sleeps on the rocks of Purgatory to the glory ineffable of God. Completely a man of his age, Dante incorporates into the Divine Comedy his place in literature as the first great lyric poet of modern times. schools--Laura and Petrarch's love--Her influence upon his life. alone is worthy to be placed beside the four great Italian poets, Dante, ./cache/34870.txt ./txt/34870.txt