YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH

ALBERT S. COOK, Editor


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THE EARLIEST LIVES OF DANTE


TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF


Giovanni Boccaccio and Lionardo Bruni Aretino


BY
JAMES ROBINSON SMITH

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Contents (not listed in original)
Preface
The Life of Dante
by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375)
The Life of Dante
by Lionardo Bruni Aretino (1369–1444)
A Passage from The Life of Dante
by Filippo Villani (a.1348–c.1404)
Index

Copyright, 1901,

by

James Robinson Smith

TO

ROBERT KILBURN ROOT

IN FRIENDSHIP AND A COMMON FAITH

YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH

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    The Foreign Sources of Modern English Versification. Charlton M. Lewis, Ph.D.
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    Ælfric: A New Study of his Life and Writings. Caroline Louisa White, Ph.D
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    The Life of St. Cecilia, from MS. Ashmole 43 and MS. Cotton Tiberius E. VII, with Introduction, Variants, and Glossary. Bertha Ellen Lovewell, Ph.D
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    Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice. Margaret Sherwood, Ph.D
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  5. V.
    Studies in Jonson's Comedy. Elisabeth Woodbridge, Ph.D
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    A Glossary of the West Saxon Gospels, Latin-West Saxon and West Saxon-Latin. Mattie Anstice Harris, Ph.D
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    Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew, translated from the Old English, with an Introduction. Robert Kilburn Root
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  10. X.
    The Earliest Lives of Dante, translated from the Italian of Giovanni Boccaccio and Lionardo Bruni Aretino. James Robinson Smith
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