Home Education

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Excerpt from Home Education: The Education of Children Under Nine Years of Age We read in the Purgatorio, Canto I., how Virgil was directed to prepare Dante for his difficult ascent, "Va dunque, e fa che tu costui ricinghe d'un giunco schietto, e che gli lavi il viso si che ogni sucidume quindi stinghe, Questa isoletta intorno ad imo ad imo, laggiù, cola dove la batte l'onda, porta de' giunchi sopra il molle limo. Null' altra pianta, che facesse fronda o indurasse, vi puote aver vita, pero che alle percosse non seconda. Venimmo poi in sul litro diserto, Quivi mi cinse si come altrui piacque: o maraviglia! che qual egli scelse l'umile pianta, cotal si rinacque Subitamente la onde la svelse." "Go, then, and see thou gird this one about With a smooth rush, and that thou wash his face, So that thou cleanse away all stain therefrom. This little island round about its base, Below there, yonder where the billow beats it, Doth rushes bear upon its washy ooze, No other plant that putteth forth the leaf, Or that doth indurate, can there have life, Because it yieldeth not unto the shocks. Then came we down upon the desert shore. There he begirt me as the other pleased, O marvellous! for even as he culled The humble plant, such it sprang up again Suddenly there where he uprooted it." (Longfellow's Translation.) 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.