THE DIVINA COMMEDIA OF DANTE ALIGHIERI TRANSLATED LINE FOR LINE IN THE TERZA RIMA WITH NOTES BY Koneller Hasen FREDERICK K. H. HASELFOOT, M.A. "Mihi bis senos multum vigilata per annos." STATIUS, Theb. xii. 811 KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH & CO., 1, PATERNOSTER SQUARE 1887 INTRODUCTION. My friend, the late Dr. Barlow, once remarked to me that he had served Dante faithfully for forty years. Longo intervallo, I have myself been in the same service for twenty-six years: for I first began the study of the great poet in 1860, and I have pursued it ever since. Soon after I had completed my first perusal of the Divina Commedia, I began the practice of learning a Canto here and there by heart. I well remember that the first of these was Purg. iii. Little by little I was led on to acquire Canto after Canto; and ended by mastering the whole poem; learning the last Canto of the Paradiso, as I find from a note now before me, on the 17th of November, 1865. Since that date I have never allowed any portion to fade out of my memory : "Sì come cera da suggello, Che la figura impressa non transmuta, Purg. xxxiii. 79-81. The intimate knowledge which this labour of love has given me, not only of the whole scope, but also of the minutest details, of the poem, I have found of the greatest assistance: at first in elucidating the meaning of |