The Cryptography of Dante #252768

The view that Dante, by a process of idealization, may have transferred certain qualities which he remembered in his mother to his characterization of someone else, to a Beatrice who may or may not be identified with Beatrice Portinari, is not to be confused with the view, expressed in the following pages, that Beatrice and Bella, the mother of Dante, are, by Dante's conscious intention, identical.