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Advertisement to the Edition of 1874.
In re-entitling and re-arranging this book (originally published in 1861 as The Early Italian Poets,) my object has been to make more evident at a first glance its important relation to Dante. The Vita Nuova, together with the many among Dante's lyrics and those of his contemporaries which elucidate their personal intercourse, are here assembled, and brought to my best ability into clear connection, in a manner not elsewhere attempted even by Italian or German editors.
