Lyrical Poems of Dante Alighieri

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. To assist the student m ascertaining this internal mystical sense has been my object; and with this view I have studied to make the translation correspond to the Italian with scrupulous exactness, line for line, and almost word for word; the outward and literal sense being the first indispensable step towards a right understanding of the interior sense concealed under an allegory.