Dante the Wayfarer

Author

Andrews, Marian [née Hare] (1839–1929)

Pseudonym

Christopher Hare

Title

Dante the Wayfarer

Link to full text

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Description

"My aim reaches not to another world, but I am content to take Dante himself as my guide for an earthly pilgrimage ; following him through the ancient cities of Northern Italy from one refuge to another in his long exile, up the steep mountain path, by the river side, along many a by way far from the busy haunts of men, where the world which the poet saw still lives unchanged after six centuries. To stand where he stood, to look upon the scenes which met his eyes, seems to bring him very near us.

Thus I have sought to follow step by step the poet of the Divina Commcdia, telling in his own words the story of all the men and women he met by the way, and gathering together the legends which sprang up like flowers wherever his footsteps passed". From the Prelude.

Type of resource

Book

content

Illustrated. With a "Chronology of the chief historical events during the life of Dante" (p. ix-xiii). It includes bibliographical references (p. 337-338) and index.

Language

English

Italian

Used for epigraphs and quotes from Dante's works

Publisher

Harper & Brothers

Place of Publication

London

New York

Date of Publication

1905

Type of reception

Literary

Genre of reception

Travel writing

Biography

Number of volumes

1

Other editions

American Edition

Dante the Wayfarer (American Edn)

Format

demy 8vo.

Physical Description

xviii, 354 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cm.

Publisher's green cloth binding; gilt lettering and centrepiece on upper board; gilt lettering on spine; gilt top edge.

Circulation: advertised in

London Evening Standard - Tuesday 05 Dec. 1905;
Westminster Gazette - Wednesday 06 Dec. 1905;
Globe - Wednesday 13 December 1905;
Daily Telegraph & Courier - Wednesday 13 Dec. 1905

Circulation: Price

10s. 6d.

Reception: reviewed in

Times Literary Supplement - 22 September 1905
'The best part of the book is that in which Mr. Hare follows Dante through the Lunigiana and the Casentino. The contributions to criticism and interpretation are not very happy. […] The amazing statement that nothing remains of Guido Guinicelli’s work shakes one’s trust in Mr. Hare’s knowledge of Italian Poetry; we commend to him Rossetti’s translation of the Canzone “Al cor gentil ripara sempre amore”. […] Yet, in spite of serious faults in point of accuracy and style, one cannot wholly quarrely with the book, for the writer seems to have a true love for the hills and byways of Italy, and has made some attempt to realize the man Dante as he lived and walked upon them. But a shorter book, with more wayfaring and less commentary, would have produced a better effect’.

Irish News and Belfast Morning News - Monday 25 September 1905

Graphic - Saturday 30 September 1905

The Scotsman - Thursday 28 September 1905

Daily Telegraph & Courier (London) - Friday 06 October 1905

The Academy - 14 October 1905

Morning Post - Thursday 16 November 1905

The Spectator - 19 November 1905

The Bookman - Dec 1905

The Modern Language Review - 1 April 1906

Weekly Irish Times - Saturday 14 October 1905
'some good descriptions, some interesting chapters, some very useful historical knowledge and a great number of interesting illustrations, but we are inclined to say that the lover of Dante will not need the volume, and that those not familiar with him better not delay here from the massive epic itself. […] We can only wonder why Mr Hare considered it right to give so many, and such long quotations in both Italian and English. With Cary’s translation – a masterpiece of itself – available, there was surely no need for this. […] the result of eschewing Cary is not always felicitous.’

Provenance: Public, Circulating or Subscription Libraries

Biblioteca del Gabinetto Scientifico Letterario G.P. Vieusseux (biblioteca circolante 1864-1892)
The London Library

Provenance: Historical Libraries

Cambridge Public Library (1921)
Waterford Johnstown (IR)

Athenaeum Library, Liverpool

Current Holding Libraries

Britain
University of Birmingham Libraries
British Library
University of Cambridge Libraries
Cardiff University Libraries
Durham University Library
University of Edinburgh Libraries
University of Exeter Library
University of Liverpool Library
University of Manchester Library
National Library of Scotland
Senate House Library
York Minster
University of Reading

University of London UCL Library Services H. St. John Brooks Collection, with marginalia.

Tick sign next to works of reference, pp. 337-8, perhaps indicating ownership of the following titles:
Aretino, "Leonardo Vita di Dante"
Bianchi, Brunone, "La commedia di Dante Alighieri"
Butler Arthur J., "Dante, his Times and his work" 1895
Gardner, E. "Dante Ten Heavens"
Rossetti, D. G. "The New life, by Dante Alighieri"
Vernon, W. W. "Readings on the Inferno and Purgatorio of Dante"
Villani Giovanni, "Cittadino Fiorentino, Cronica universale de suoi Tempi" Pub. 1554
Temple Classics "Dante" Italian and English text.

University of Oxford Libraries.
Copies in the Toynbee Collection (Weston Library) and Moore Collection (Taylorian Instute). Another copy was bequeathed by Lucy Ethel Willock to the library of Lady Margaret Hall College, but is now lost.
(Toynbee Collection; Moore Collection)

Ireland
Trinity College Dublin

Italy
Biblioteca Clarence Bicknell dell'Istituto internazionale di studi liguri - Bordighera (IM)
Biblioteca del Centro dantesco - Ravenna (RA)
Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria - Torino (TO)