A Victorian Dantofilo: Henry Clark Barlow’s Paradiso 7

Abstract

Henry Clark Barlow (1806–1876) was a lifelong student of Dante, publishing copious amounts of scholarship and a major edition of the Divina Commedia. He was also given to composing English poetry. He translated just one canto of Dante’s Commedia into English verse, which he never published: Paradiso 7. In this note the translation is introduced and transcribed from the University College London archive containing Barlow’s papers.