# The Earliest Lives of Dante (Smith 1901)

Volume 10 in the series Yale Studies in English.
YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
ALBERT S. COOK, Editor
X
THE EARLIEST LIVES OF DANTE
TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN OF
Giovanni Boccaccio and Lionardo Bruni Aretino
BY
JAMES ROBINSON SMITH
NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1901
    Preface
    The Life of Dante
       by Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375)
    The Life of Dante
       by Lionardo Bruni Aretino (1369–1444)
    A Passage from The Life of Dante
       by Filippo Villani (a.1348–c.1404)
    Index
Copyright, 1901,
by
James Robinson Smith
TO
ROBERT KILBURN ROOT
IN FRIENDSHIP AND A COMMON FAITH
YALE STUDIES IN ENGLISH
Albert S. Cook, Editor
* I.The Foreign Sources of Modern English Versification. Charlton M. Lewis, Ph.D.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................50
* II.Ælfric: A New Study of his Life and Writings. Caroline Louisa White, Ph.D................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1.50
* III.The Life of St. Cecilia, from MS. Ashmole 43 and MS. Cotton Tiberius E. VII, with Introduction, Variants, and Glossary. Bertha Ellen Lovewell, Ph.D................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1.00
* IV.Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice. Margaret Sherwood, Ph.D.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................50
* V.Studies in Jonson's Comedy. Elisabeth Woodbridge, Ph.D................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................50
* VI.A Glossary of the West Saxon Gospels, Latin-West Saxon and West Saxon-Latin. Mattie Anstice Harris, Ph.D................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1.50
* VII.Andreas: The Legend of St. Andrew, translated from the Old English, with an Introduction. Robert Kilburn Root.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................50
* VIII.The Classical Mythology of Milton's English Poems. Charles Grosvenor Osgood, Ph.D................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1.00
* IX.A Guide to the Middle English Metrical Romances dealing with English and Germanic Legends, and with the Cycles of Charlemagne and of Arthur. Anna Hunt Billings, Ph.D. (In press)................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................1.50
* X.The Earliest Lives of Dante, translated from the Italian of Giovanni Boccaccio and Lionardo Bruni Aretino. James Robinson Smith.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................75
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