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Dante Alighieri, his life and works . (reprinted at Padua in the following year), and at Modena in 1831; but the first really critical text, based on the authority of all the available manuscripts, was that of Dr. Moore, which was first printed in the Ox-ford Dante in 1894, and was reprinted in an amendedform in the third edition of that work in 1904. Thirty-three manuscripts of the Convivio are known, of lAs to this form of the title of the treatise, see above, p. 173, note 3. 192 DANTES WORKS which three are in England.^ No critical account norclassification of these manuscripts has yet been published, but at least six of them belong to the fourteenth century.^ ^ One in the Canonici collection in the Bodleian Library at Oxford;one in the Earl of Leicesters collection at Holkham; and one in thepossession of Dr. Edward Moore at Canterbury. TheFe are four Englishtranslations of the Convivio, viz. by Elizabeth Sayer (1887), KatharineHillard (1889), P. H. Wicksteed (1903), and W. W. Jackson (1909). See Zingarelli, Dante, p. 389.. DANTE AND HIS BOOKFront the ficture by Doinemco di Michelino, in the Duonto at Florence CHAPTER II The Divina Commedia—Its origin, subject, and aim—Date of com-position—Scheme of the fJoem—Boccaccios story of the lost cantos—Why it was written in Italian—Dante and his rimes—Manuscripts andprinted editions—English editions and translations—Commentaries. rIVINA COMMEDIA.—M. the close of the Vita^ Nuova Dante says that a wonderful vision ap-peared to me, in which I saw things which made me re-solve to speak no more of this blessed one, ^ until I couldmore worthily treat of her. And to attain to this, I studyto the utmost of my power, as she truly knows. So that, if it shall please Him through whom all things live, thatmy life be prolonged for some years, I hope to say of herwhat was never said of any woman. This promise to sayof Beatrice what had been said of no other woman Dantefulfilled in the Divina Commedia, the central figure