Dante, La Divina Commedia Notes on Inferno (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Dante, La Divina Commedia: Notes on Inferno Line 1. Nel mezzo, 8tc midway in the course of our mortal life, ' i. E. At thirty-five years of age, in accordance with the saying of the Psalmist, The days of our age are threescore years and ten, ' Ps. Xc. To. Dante was born in 1265, and consequently his conversion, ' which was the turning-point of his spiritual life, and which he ascribes to the effect of his Vision upon him, took place in I 300. This date was a marked one, both in the history of the time, as being the great year of Jubilee, and in Dante's career, since it was the year of his Priorate at Florence. 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.