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logical virtues; on sin; the active and the con-
templative life; the state of perfection. 		308 - 323
§ X. BEATRICE. G. A. Scartazzini. 324 - 331
§ XI. THE PARADISO. C. A. Dimmore.
The sublime canticle; its theme; the beginnings
of the spiritual life; astronomical framework;
two fundamental truths; light, life, truth. 		332 - 345
CHAPTER VII
INTERPRETATIONS
§ I. THE CHARACTER, PURPOSE, AND POETIC QUALshy;
ITIES OF THE DIVINA COMMEDIA. Dean Church
.
The strangeness of the Comedy; the theme
modern; Dante's self-confidence; his indepen-
dence; the muscularizing of his character; the
greatness of his aim; this world and the next
equally real; the purpose of the poem; intro-
duction of the serious into literature; subordi-
nates sensibility to exact truth; love of light;
beauty, melody, and uncouthness spring from a
love of reality; greatness not in detail; but in
the strength of the whole. 		349 - 397
§ II. THE POETRY OF THE INFERNO. A. Gaspary.
The condensed power of Dante's poetry; his
satirical energy; the comic element; his bar-
barous realism. 		398 - 415
§ III. THE DIVINA COMMEDIA THE EMBODIMENT OF
THE CHRISTIAN IDEA OF A TRIUMPHANT
LIFE. J. R. Lowell.
Dante's firm faith in the divine order; the first
to make a poem wholly out of himself; the chief
of descriptive poets; the seat perilous. 		416 - 426
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 429 - 430
INDEX. 433 - 435

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