Excerpt from Dante and Giovanni Del Virgilio: Including a Critical Edition of the Text of Dante's "Eclogae Latinae" And of the Poetic Remains of Giovanni Del Virgilio Our original intention was merely to furnish a critical edition, With a translation and commentary, of the poetical correspondence between Dante and Del Virgilio. But a cl_ose study of Del Virgilio's poem addressed to Mussato, With a view to the discovery of matter illustrative of his correspondence With Dante, convinced us that Dante students would be glad to be able to read it in its entirety. And When we found ourselves thus including the greater part of Del Virgilio's extant work 111 our book, the pious act of collecting the rest of his poetic remains naturally sug gested itself; and so our project took the shape of an edition of Dante's Latin Eclogues and of the poetic remains of Del Virgilio. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.