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Beacon Lights of History, Volume 06 A free download from 1 Beacon Lights of History, Volume 06 The Project Gutenberg eBook, Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI, by John Lord This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title: Beacon Lights of History, Volume VI Author: John Lord Release Date: December 24, 2003 [eBook #10532] Language: English Character set encoding: iso-8859-1 ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG. | 1 Beacon Lights of History Volume 06 A free download from http Beacon Lights of History Volume 06 The Project Gutenberg eBook Beacon Lights of History Volume VI by John Lord This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at Title Beacon Lights of History Volume VI Author John Lord Release Date December 24 2003 eBook 10532 Language English Character set encoding iso-8859-1 START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOLUME VI E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland Charlie Kirschner and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team Editorial note Project Gutenberg has an earlier version of this work which is titled Beacon Lights of History Volume III part 2 Renaissance and Reformation. See E-Book 1499 Beacon Lights of History Volume 06 2 http etext98 or http etext98 The numbering of volumes in the earlier set reflected the order in which the lectures were given. In the current later version volumes were numbered to put the subjects in historical sequence. LORD S LECTURES BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY VOLUME VI RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION. BY JOHN LORD . AUTHOR OF THE OLD ROMAN WORLD MODERN EUROPE ETC. ETC. CONTENTS. DANTE. RISE OF MODERN POETRY. The antiquity of Poetry The greatness of Poets Their influence on Civilization The true poet one of the rarest of men The pre-eminence of Homer Dante Shakspeare and Goethe Characteristics of Dante His precocity His moral wisdom and great attainments His terrible scorn and his isolation State of society when Dante was born His banishment Guelphs and Ghibellines Dante stimulated to his great task by an absorbing sentiment Beatrice Dante s passion for Beatrice analyzed The worship of ideal qualities the foundation of lofty love. The .