Grandgent, a professor at Harvard from 1896-1932, pens a fascinating account of the early development of the Italian language which will be of particular interest to linguists and medievalists. (Foreign…

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Excerpt from Old and New: Sundry Papers Although the following essays and addresses form rather a miscellaneous lot, they have this in common, that they treat, in general, of changes…

A handy, reasonably priced edition of Dante Alighieri’s Divina Commedia that is nevertheless accurate and elegant, presenting the entire work without notes or critical apparatus.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either…

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