Italian Studies Their Place in Modern Education

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Excerpt from Italian Studies Their Place in Modern Education: An Inaugural AddressMy interpretation of the charge laid upon me is that you desire to give an initial impulse to Italian studies here in a modern direction while derogatingnothing from the lofty position always held in Cambridge by the Italian Classics, and especially by Dante. No one who has grasped what Italian literature has meant to English poetry and English culture from the time when Chaucer left these shores for Italy and Milton re turned, from the day when the poet Gray crossed the Alps, to the days of Byron, of Leigh Hunt, of Keats, of Shelley, of Swinburne, of the Brownings, and of Meredith - no one I say can desire for a moment to depreciate the study of the Italian Classics.Let me repeat that no depreciation, no subordination even, of Dante and the classics to modern Italian studies is ln tended. That would be as inept as to neglect or depreciate Shakespeare in a chair of English at an Italian university: t/ze studies are complementary.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.