Excerpt from The Early Lives of Dante In completing and revising my translation for the present edition I have throughout consulted his work and by its aid have detected some mistakes in my own. Many more he would have enabled me to discover had I not already been fortunate enough to find them out for myself. I must also, in my turn, reciprocate the acknowledgment of indebtedness for the rendering of certain words and phrases, especially in the new matter of this edition; but in the great majority of cases coincidences of expression, on whichever side thepriority lies, must be regarded as having risen inde pendently. 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.