{"product_id":"2940013788145","title":"RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDANTE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRISE OF MODERN POETRY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe antiquity of Poetry\u003cbr\u003eThe greatness of Poets\u003cbr\u003eTheir influence on Civilization\u003cbr\u003eThe true poet one of the rarest of men\u003cbr\u003eThe pre-eminence of Homer, Dante, Shakspeare, and Goethe\u003cbr\u003eCharacteristics of Dante\u003cbr\u003eHis precocity\u003cbr\u003eHis moral wisdom and great attainments\u003cbr\u003eHis terrible scorn and his isolation\u003cbr\u003eState of society when Dante was born\u003cbr\u003eHis banishment\u003cbr\u003eGuelphs and Ghibellines\u003cbr\u003eDante stimulated to his great task by an absorbing sentiment\u003cbr\u003eBeatrice\u003cbr\u003eDante's passion for Beatrice analyzed\u003cbr\u003eThe worship of ideal qualities the foundation of lofty love.\u003cbr\u003eThe mystery of love\u003cbr\u003eIts exalted realism\u003cbr\u003eDedication of Dante's life-labors to the departed Beatrice\u003cbr\u003eThe Divine Comedy; a study\u003cbr\u003eThe Inferno; its graphic pictures\u003cbr\u003eIts connection with the ideas of the Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003eThe physical hell of Dante in its connection with the Mediaeval doctrine\u003cbr\u003e  of Retribution\u003cbr\u003eThe Purgatorio; its moral wisdom\u003cbr\u003eOrigin of the doctrine of Purgatory\u003cbr\u003eIts consolation amid the speculations of despair\u003cbr\u003eThe Paradiso\u003cbr\u003eIts discussion of grand themes\u003cbr\u003eThe Divina Commedia makes an epoch in civilization\u003cbr\u003eDante's life an epic\u003cbr\u003eHis exalted character\u003cbr\u003eHis posthumous influence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGEOFFREY CHAUCER.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eENGLISH LIFE IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe characteristics of the fourteenth century\u003cbr\u003eIts great events and characters\u003cbr\u003eState of society in England when Chaucer arose\u003cbr\u003eHis early life\u003cbr\u003eHis intimacy with John of Gaunt, the great Duke of Lancaster\u003cbr\u003eHis prosperity\u003cbr\u003eHis poetry\u003cbr\u003eThe Canterbury Tales\u003cbr\u003eTheir fidelity to Nature and to English life\u003cbr\u003eConnection of his poetry with the formation of the English Language\u003cbr\u003eThe Pilgrims of the Canterbury Tales\u003cbr\u003eChaucer's views of women and of love\u003cbr\u003eHis description of popular sports and amusements\u003cbr\u003eThe preponderance of country life in the fourteenth century\u003cbr\u003eChaucer's description of popular superstitions\u003cbr\u003eOf ecclesiastical abuses\u003cbr\u003eHis emancipation from the ideas of the Middle Ages\u003cbr\u003ePeculiarities of his poetry\u003cbr\u003eChaucer's private life\u003cbr\u003eThe respect in which he was held\u003cbr\u003eInfluence of his poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMARITIME DISCOVERIES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMarco Polo\u003cbr\u003eHis travels\u003cbr\u003eThe geographical problems of the fourteenth century\u003cbr\u003eSought to be solved by Christopher Columbus\u003cbr\u003eThe difficulties he had to encounter\u003cbr\u003eRegarded as a visionary man\u003cbr\u003eHis persistence\u003cbr\u003eInfluence of women in great enterprises\u003cbr\u003eColumbus introduced to Queen Isabella\u003cbr\u003eExcuses for his opponents\u003cbr\u003eThe Queen favors his projects\u003cbr\u003eThe first voyage of Columbus\u003cbr\u003eIts dangers\u003cbr\u003eDiscovery of the Bahama Islands\u003cbr\u003eDiscovery of Cuba and Hispaniola\u003cbr\u003eColumbus returns to Spain\u003cbr\u003eThe excitement and enthusiasm produced by his discoveries\u003cbr\u003eHis second voyage\u003cbr\u003eExtravagant expectations of Columbus\u003cbr\u003eDisasters of the colonists\u003cbr\u003eDecline of the popularity of Columbus\u003cbr\u003eHis third voyage\u003cbr\u003eHis arrest and disgrace\u003cbr\u003eHis fourth voyage\u003cbr\u003eHis death\u003cbr\u003eGreatness of his services\u003cbr\u003eResults of his discoveries","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152694427888,"sku":"2940013788145","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013788145_p0.jpg?v=1763590267","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013788145","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}