The Passing of Beatrice

1932, first edition, Gertrude Leigh's Study in the Heterodoxy of Dante

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First edition, first printing. Hardback. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge untrimmed. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 207pp

A study of the works of the Italian, Dante Alighieri. Contents: 1. The Conditions under which Dante Wrote, 2. Heterodoxy in the Thirteenth Century, 3. Initiation into the New Life, 4. The Significance of Certain Key-Words, 5. Self-Dedication, 6. The Lady of the Screen, 7. The True Defence, 8. The Wedding Feast, 9. The Interrogation and the Ode, 10. Shadows of Approaching Doom, 11. The New Vision of Beatrice, 12. The Passing of Beatrice, 13. Dante Announces her Death to the World, 14. The Lament over Beatrice, 15. The Lady at the Window, 16. The Close of the Second Age, 17. The Heterodoxy of Dante, 18. The Witness of the 'Paradiso'.

Condition

This copy is in good condition for age, but with some fading and bumping to the cloth binding, and some scattered blotchy foxing throughout but remaining in strong readable condition.

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