ON THE

PARADISO OF DANTE

CHIEFLY BASED ON

THE COMMENTARY OF BENVENUTO DA IMOLA

BY THE HONBLE

WILLIAM-WARREN VERNON

M.A. OXON.; ACCADEMICO CORRISPONDENTE DELLA CRUSCA; CAVALIERE
DI S. MAURIZIO E LAZZARO IN ITALY; AND KNIGHT OF

THE ROYAL ORDER OF ST. OLAF IN NORWAY

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THE
BISHOP OF RIPON

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To my bonoured Friend

The Rev. EDWARD MOORE, D.D., Hon. D.Litt. Dubl.

PRINCIPAL OF ST. EDMUND HALL, OXFORD,

CANON OF canterbury,

AND ACCADemico corRISPONDENte della CRUSCA IN ITALY,

WHOSE ORIGINAL RESEARCHES IN THE

TEXT AND LITERATURE OF dante

HAVE CAUSED HIM TO BE ACKNOWLedged as

THE LEADING AUTHORITY IN ENGLAND,

These readings on the paraDISO,

WHICH OWE MUCH TO HIS UNWEAried advice and assistance,

are dediCATED

AS A SMall token of

GRATEFUL AND AFFECTIONATE RECOGNITION

BY

WILLIAM WARREN VERNON

October, 1908