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    The Prophecy of Dante
    The Prophecy of Dante
    The Prophecy of Dante
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    The Prophecy of Dante

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    Lord Byron was an English poet who became one of the leading figures in the Romantic Movement.  Byron is still considered to be one of the most influential poets in history.  This edition of The Prophecy of Dante includes a table of contents.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCharles River Editors
    Release dateMar 22, 2018
    ISBN9781531279783
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    Lord Byron

    Lord Byron was an English poet and the most infamous of the English Romantics, glorified for his immoderate ways in both love and money. Benefitting from a privileged upbringing, Byron published the first two cantos of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage upon his return from his Grand Tour in 1811, and the poem was received with such acclaim that he became the focus of a public mania. Following the dissolution of his short-lived marriage in 1816, Byron left England amid rumours of infidelity, sodomy, and incest. In self-imposed exile in Italy Byron completed Childe Harold and Don Juan. He also took a great interest in Armenian culture, writing of the oppression of the Armenian people under Ottoman rule; and in 1823, he aided Greece in its quest for independence from Turkey by fitting out the Greek navy at his own expense. Two centuries of references to, and depictions of Byron in literature, music, and film began even before his death in 1824.

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      The Prophecy of Dante - Lord Byron

      THE PROPHECY OF DANTE

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      Lord Byron

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      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      The Prophecy of Dante

      Introduction to The Prophecy of Dante.

      Dedication.

      Preface

      Canto The First.

      Canto The Second.

      Canto The Third.

      Canto The Fourth.

      THE PROPHECY OF DANTE

      ..................

      INTRODUCTION TO THE PROPHECY OF DANTE.

      The Prophecy of Dante was written at Ravenna, during the month of June, 1819, to gratify the Countess Guiccioli. Before she left Venice in April she had received a promise from Byron to visit her at Ravenna. Dante’s tomb, the classical pinewood, and so forth, had afforded a pretext for the invitation to be given and accepted, and, at length, when she was, as she imagined, at the point of death, he arrived, better late than never, on the Festival of the Corpus Domini which fell that year on the tenth of June (see her communication to Moore, Life, p. 399). Horses and books were left behind at Venice, but he could occupy his enforced leisure by writing something on the subject of Dante (ibid., p. 402). A heightened interest born of fuller knowledge, in Italian literature and Italian politics, lent zest to this labour of love, and, time and place conspiring, he composed the best thing he ever wrote (Letter to Murray, March 23, 1820, Letters, 1900, iv. 422), his Vision (or Prophecy) of Dante.

      It would have been strange if Byron, who had sounded his Lament over the sufferings of Tasso, and who had become de facto if not de jure a naturalized Italian, had forborne to associate his name and fame with the sacred memory of the Gran padre Alighier. If there had been any truth in Friedrich

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