"The subtitle of this volume indicates sufficiently its scope and purpose. While there exist many admirable essays, commentaries, and general introductions to the study of Dante, I am not aware of anything in the way of an exposition, canto by canto, as simple and popular as the nature of the subject allows. Such an exposition it has been my aim to supply."--from the Preface.

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Excerpt from Exiles of Eternity: An Exposition of Dante's Inferno I take the opportunity of the issue of a new edition to express my gratitude for the kindly reception given to this volume. My hope of completing the exposition of the great poem is now fulfilled in the two volumes Prisoners of Hope and In Patria. During the course of my work on the Purgatorio and the Paradiso, I have seen no reason to think that the expository method which I adopted in the Exiles is mistaken. The new edition is therefore issued without alteration, because, while there are indeed many points of detail which I could have wished to change, I adhere to the substance of the exposition as a whole. There are, however, two subjects which further study has made clearer to my mind; and although perhaps they are not strictly relevant to a Preface, I venture to insert them here in the hope that some light may be thrown on points of difficulty. 1. The first is the place which the Virgin Mary occupies in Dante's salvation. This, of course, is obvious in the Purgatorio: on every Terrace of the Mount one of her virtues is held up as the ideal. 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.

"The subtitle of this volume indicates sufficiently its scope and purpose. While there exist many admirable essays, commentaries, and general introductions to the study of Dante, I am not aware of anything in the way of an exposition, canto by canto, as simple and popular as the nature of the subject allows. Such an exposition it has been my aim to supply."--from the original Preface.