Studies in Dante. First, second, third and fourth séries (complet)

Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1896-1917, 4 volumes, in-8, pleine percaline rouge de l’éditeur, dos lisse, orné, X, 400 (et 8 pages de catalogue) ; XVI, 386 (et 8 pages de catalogue) ; XVI, 388 (et 8 pages de catalogue), une carte dépliante ; XII, 304 pp. Ex-libris du Collegium Pembrochianum, Oxford, à l’entrée des volumes, cachets annulés de bibliothèque sur les pages de garde et sur les tranches. 

Edition originale du Magnum Opus du « Dr Moore, l’italianiste bien connu qui cultive brillamment en Angleterre le vaste champ des études dantesques » (Charles Martens). 

First series. Scripture and classical authors in Dante : « no one before Dr Moore had made any attempt to cover the whole ground of Dante’s indebtedness to Biblical and classical writers, a task the magnitude of which might well have deterred the most ardent enthusiast. » (Toynbee Paget)

Second series. Miscellaneous essays : Dante as a religious teacher, especially in relation to catholic doctrine. Beatrice. The classification of sins In the « Inferno and Purgatorio ». Dante’s personal attitude towards different kinds of sin. Unity and symmetry of design in the « Purgatorio ». Dante and Sicily. The genuineness of the « quaestio de aqua et terra ». 

Third series. Miscellaneous essays : The astronomy of Dante. The geography of Dante. The date assumedby Dante for the Vision of the Divina Commedia. Symbolism and Prophecy in Purg. XXVIII-XXXIII, part 1 : The Apocalyptic Vision. Part 2 : The reproaches of Beatrice. Part 3 : The DXV Prophecy. The genuineness of the dedicatory epistle to Can Grande. 

Fourth series. Textual criticism of the « Convivio » and Miscellaneous essays.