Excerpt from On the Original Portraits of Dante<br><br>But Boccaccio, had he chosen so to do, might have drawn another portrait Of Dante, not the author of the Divine Comedy, but the author of the New L999. The likeness of the youthful Dante was familiar to those F lor entines who had never looked on the living presence of their greatest citizen.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.