Excerpt from The "Lady" In Comparisons From the Poetry of the "Dolce Stil Nuovo" A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy The comparisons to be considered are, therefore, relatively few, and such as can be easily classified by the name of the object, according, that is, as the Lady is compared to the angel, flower, gold, lily, rose, snow, star, sun. 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.