# Dante: His Times and His Work

Author: Butler, Arthur John, 1844-1910

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27999

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Dante%3A+His+Times+and+His+Work+Butler&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

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 languages, and very various in quality; but for the comfort of the young student, it may at once, and once for all, be stated that he can pretty safely ignore everything written between 1400 and 1800. The subject of commentaries, biographies, and other helps, or would-be helps, will be treated of later on. Here we need only say that the Renaissance practically stifled anything like an intelligent stud...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/dante-his-times-and-his-work-27999/chapters/7/index.md)