# Beacon Lights Of History Volume 3 Part 2 Renaissance And Reform

Author: Unknown

Genre: Public Domain

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: Local public-domain TXT source

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Beacon+Lights+Of+History+Volume+3+Part+2+Renaissance+And+Reform&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The antiquity of Poetry The greatness of Poets Their influence on Civilization The true poet one of the rarest of men The pre-eminence of Homer, Dante, Shakspeare, and Goethe Characteristics of Dante His precocity His moral wisdom and great attainments His terrible scorn and his isolation State of society when Dante was born His banishment Guelphs and Ghibellines Dante stimulated to his great task by an absorbing sentiment Beatrice Dante's passion for Beatrice analyzed The worship of ideal qualities the foundation of lofty love The mystery of love Its exalted realism Dedication of Dante's life-labors to the departed Beatrice The Divine Comedy; a study The Inferno; its graphic pictures Its...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/beacon-lights-of-history-volume-3-part-2-renaissance-and-reform-e7376442/chapters/1/index.md)