Dante, like Shakespere, speaks to every age, and has a word for every crisis in the life of men and nations. Per-haps at no time since he passed into the other world has his spirit been so potent as in these last years, when his Italy has been putting the last touches to the redemption of that territory whose boundaries he sketched in famous phrase.Scarce were his ashes cold, ere Boccaccio began to ex-pound, from the professorial chair founded by a repent-ant Florence, the mysteries of his great Poem. Scarcely had Italy ...
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Dante, like Shakespere, speaks to every age, and has a word for every crisis in the life of men and nations. Per-haps at no time since he passed into the other world has his spirit been so potent as in these last years, when his Italy has been putting the last touches to the redemption of that territory whose boundaries he sketched in famous phrase.Scarce were his ashes cold, ere Boccaccio began to ex-pound, from the professorial chair founded by a repent-ant Florence, the mysteries of his great Poem. Scarcely had Italy awaked from her long sleep of slavery to the foreigner ere she erected in Florence, in the very year in which it became temporary capital of a free nation, a statue of the prophet of Italian liberty and unity.
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