Excerpt from The Ladies of Dante's Lyrics The administration of this Fund has been in the hands of a committee made up of one member of the Faculty of Adelbert College, of the Medical School, and of the Law School, and the President of the University in an advisory capacity, and lectures upon a variety of topics have been given during the past three years. The lec tures contained in this volume, delivered in February of 1917 by Professor C. H. Grandgent of Harvard Uni versity, are the first to be published by the Fund. 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.