Excerpt from Dante AlighieriEn 1274, il avait alors neuf ans, il ren contra, dans une fête privée où son père l'avait amené, une enfant de huit ans, du nom de Béatrice Portinari, dont son ima gination et son coeur précoces furent si vivement frappés qu Il lui adressa le jour même ses premiers vers, et que son image ne put désormais se détacher de lui.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.