Or who, that can really read, can open a volume of Mr. Booth's severely statistical Survey of London, with all its studious reserve, its scientific repression, without seeing between its lines the dantean circles; happy if he can sometimes read them upward as well as down?
"Civics: as Applied Sociology"
Patrick Geddes
In true dantean form, politics stood in the way of its construction in 1938. Ironically this literature-inspired building can itself most easily be found in book form.
"Divine-Comedy-Longfellow-s-Translation-Complete"
Dante Alighieri
Here he made, also, acquaintances among the Italians,-especially the Duke of Sermoneta, the dantean scholar, and Monsignore Nardi, of the papal court.
"Italy, the Magic Land"
Lilian Whiting