WITH THE LIFE OF DANTE, NOTES, AND AN INDEX. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I. LONDON: PRINTED FOR JOHN TAYLOR, BOOKSELLER AND PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF LONDON, 30, UPPER GOWER STREET. MDCCCXXXI. PREFACE. In the years 1805 and 1806, I published the first part of the following translation with the text of the original. Since that period, two impressions of the whole of the Divina Commedia, in Italian, have made their appearance in this country. It is not necessary that I should add a third: and I am induced to hope that the Poem, even in the present version of it, may not be without interest for the mere English reader. The translation of the second and third parts, "The Purgatory" and "The Paradise," |