Cryptography of Dante

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. The view that Dante, by a process of idealization, may have transferred certain qualities which he remembered in his mother to his characterization of someone else, to a Beatrice who may or may not be identified with Beatrice Portinari, is not to be confused with the view, expressed in the following pages, that Beatrice and Bella, the mother of Dante, are, by Dante's conscious intention, identical.