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Letters (Epistolae)

Dante Alighieri

This book is in Latin.

The thirteen Latin letters of Dante in the numbering of the Società Dantesca Italiana (1921), written between about 1304 and 1316: to Cardinal Niccolò of Ostia, the counts of Romena, Moroello Malaspina, the kings of Italy, the Florentines, Henry VII; three written for the Countess of Battifolle to Queen Margaret; to the Italian cardinals, to a Florentine friend; and to Cangrande della Scala (Epistle XIII, whose authenticity is disputed, above all its exegetical part). Paget Toynbee’s numbering, which makes Cangrande’s letter X, differs.

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Source: All thirteen letters, with the editor’s bracketed rubrics and paragraph numbers. The titles of the chapters are ours, from each letter’s salutation. Epistle XIII is labelled authenticity disputed (the dedication is widely accepted; the exegetical part is contested). The English of Paget Toynbee (1920) is OCR only and is not imported.