"Divina Commedia" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... upon him in the afternoon I was apt to find him reading the old French poets, or the plays of Calderon, or the 'Divina Commedia', which he magnanimously supposed me much better acquainted with than I was because I knew some passages of it by heart. One day I came ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... said that but for the disappointments of Dante, Florence would have had another prosperous Lord Mayor; and the ten dumb centuries continued voiceless, and the ten other listening centuries (for there will be ten of them, and more) would have had no "Divina Commedia" ...
— Architects of Fate - or, Steps to Success and Power • Orison Swett Marden
... the Ptolemaic theory adopted without doubt or hesitation by the numerous authors whose works he perused. His knowledge of Italian enabled him to become familiar with Dante—one of his favourite authors, whose poetical writings were deeply read by him, and who, in the elaboration of his poem, the 'Divina Commedia,' included the entire ...
— The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' • Thomas Orchard |
