Excerpt from A Companion to Dante New works had appeared in the interval since its publica tion 5 further study had placed new aspects on existing evidence; on various points the writer had seen reason to modify his opinion. It was therefore better to face a new fire of criticism, and write a new work. 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.