. Six thousand years of history. epresentation of the three kingdoms offuturity, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, divided into onehundred cantos, containing about 14,000 lines. Dantecreated his countrys national poetry, and is one of themost original and powerful of writers—bold and concise,and, as occasion calls, soft, sweet, and terrible in great genius, but rudely treated in his lifetime, andsince half a century after his death regarded with animmense reverence by his countrymen, died at Ravenna in1321. His poetry was the first good verse that hadappeared in Europe for nearly a thou
. Six thousand years of history. epresentation of the three kingdoms offuturity, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, divided into onehundred cantos, containing about 14,000 lines. Dantecreated his countrys national poetry, and is one of themost original and powerful of writers—bold and concise,and, as occasion calls, soft, sweet, and terrible in great genius, but rudely treated in his lifetime, andsince half a century after his death regarded with animmense reverence by his countrymen, died at Ravenna in1321. His poetry was the first good verse that hadappeared in Europe for nearly a thousand years, and hehas never been surpassed, if equaled, in epic poetry Italian poet Petrarch (Francesco Petrarch), hiscountrys greatest lyric versifier, lived from 1304 to 1374,and is famous for his sonnets, his love for Laura, and theservices which he rendered in the revival of classical learn-ing. His merits were amply recognized in his lifetimeand in 1341 Petrarch was solemnly crowned with a wreath COPYRIGHT, 1900. A. Maignan, Pinx DANTE MEETS MATILDA CIVILIZATION IN MIDDLE AGES 439 of bay, in the capitol of Rome, as the laureate poet, ornational singer of Italy. Chaucer, born about 1340, and who died in 1400, isthe first really great name in English literature. He heldvarious offices and went abroad in subordinate capacitieson the service of the King, and in Italy was introduced toliterature in its noblest mediaevial shape, and in one ofthe noblest shapes it has appeared in any age. He hadwritten poetry before this, but it was the work of the poetsDante, Petrarch, and Boccaccios prose, that most pro-foundly impressed him and influenced him, and he bor-rowed much of their style and grace and occasionally inci-dents as well. His Canterbury Tales, the most famous ofhis works, consists of twenty-two tales in verse, with twoin prose, told by twenty-three pilgrims out of the twenty-nine who meet at the Tabard Inn in Southwark on theirway to the shrine of Thomas a Beck
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