Up for auction a RARE! "Dante Alighieri" Edward Moore Clipped Signature. 

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Edward Moore, FBA (1835–1916)

was an English scholar who

specialized in Dante Alighieri. He was

born at Cardiff, educated at Bromsgrove Grammar School and

at Pembroke College. For a

time he was rector of Gatcombe, Isle of Wight. From 1862 to 1864 he was fellow and tutor

of Queen's College, Oxford.

In 1864 he became the principal of St. Edmund Hall, and in 1903 he was made canon of Canterbury Cathedral. He

became an honorary fellow of Pembroke and Queen's colleges, and received the

Dublin D.Litt. He published:

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Aristotle's Ethics, books i-iv (5th

edition, 1896)

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Aristotle's Poetics, with Notes (1875)

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Time References in the Divine Commedia (1887), translated and published

at Florence in 1900 with the title Gli accenni al

tempo nella Divina Commedia; Textual Criticism of the Divina Commedia

·        

Dante and his Early Biographers (1890)

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Tutte le opere di Dante Alighieri, the "Oxford Dante".

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Studies in Dante. First Series. Scripture and

Classical Authors in Dante (Oxford, 1896)

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Studies in Dante. Second Series. Miscellaneous Essays (Oxford, 1899)

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Studies in Dante. Third Series. Miscellaneous Essays (Oxford, 1903)

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Studies in Dante. Fourth Series. Textual Criticism of

the Convivio and Miscellaneous Essays (Oxford, 1917)