Dante - his times and his work by Arthur John Butler

Dante - his times and his work by Arthur John Butler by Dante Alighieri is offered here in a clean English digital edition prepared for fluent ebook reading. The work stands within classics and gives modern readers direct access to a public-domain classic with navigable structure and a restrained typographic presentation. The opening pages establish the book's atmosphere with this first movement: The person who sets to work to write about Dante at the present day has two great difficulties to reckon with: the quantity which has already been written on the subject, and the quantity which remains to be written.
The first involves the reading of an enormous mass of literature in several languag This edition is suited to readers who want a reliable, uncluttered version of the text for study, rediscovery, and sustained reading.