Dante Alighieri
Published: 2015-07-11
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Excerpt from The Divina Commedia of Dante Alighieri, Vol. 3 of 3: Consisting of the Inferno Purgatorio and Paradiso In this Essay I shall confine myself to the illustration of an opinion, which often occurs in this part of Dante's Poem; not taken up at random by him, but probably learned from the Writings of Saint Augustine, with which he was very conversant; as, if necessary, could be proved from various parts of his Work. At least, if he did not learn this notion there, he, like many other Writers, inferred it from some strong expressions in his Works. The opinion which I mean is, the idea of seeing all things in God; a notion which, In the end of the seventeenth century, had been rendered so celebrated by Malebranche. When Augustine uses such strong expressions as these: Illuminandi sumus - Lumen non sumus. - l'is nosce quid est? - Tenebr: decente te magistro intimo in schola pectoris, &c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."