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| Born | William John Borlase-Warren-Venables-Vernon 1834 |
| Died | 12 November 1919 (aged 84–85) London, United Kingdom |
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| Awards | Knight of the Order of St. Olav |
William John Borlase-Warren-Venables-Vernon (1834 – 12 November 1919) was a British Dante scholar. He was mostly known for publishing previously unpublished works, being the first to publish Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola's commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy . [2]
Vernon was born in 1834. He spent some time in Italy with his father, George Venables-Vernon, before moving back to England to attend Eton College. He then attended Christ Church, Oxford as a commoner, but left in 1855 to get married before he could finish his degree. He returned to finish it twenty years later. [2]
In 1887, Vernon published Rambaldi da Imola's Latin commentary to Dante's Divine Comedy . The commentary was originally written around 1390, and had previously remained unpublished. [3]
In 1917, Vernon published an autobiography titled Recollections of Seventy-Two Years. [3]
Vernon was a Freemason who married Agnes Lucy Boileau, daughter of John Boileau, 1st Baronet. [2]
Dante Alighieri, most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri and often referred to as Dante, was an Italian poet, writer and philosopher. His Divine Comedy, originally called Comedìa and later christened Divina by Giovanni Boccaccio, is widely considered one of the most important poems of the Middle Ages and the greatest literary work in the Italian language.
The Divine Comedy is an Italian narrative poem by Dante Alighieri, begun c. 1308 and completed around 1321, shortly before the author's death. It is widely considered the pre-eminent work in Italian literature and one of the greatest works of world literature. The poem's imaginative vision of the afterlife is representative of the medieval worldview as it existed in the Western Church by the 14th century. It helped establish the Tuscan language, in which it is written, as the standardized Italian language. It is divided into three parts: Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
Baron Vernon, of Kinderton in the County of Chester, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain. It was created in 1762 for the former Member of Parliament George Venables-Vernon. He had previously represented Lichfield and Derby in the House of Commons. Born George Vernon, he was the son of Henry Vernon, of Sudbury in Derbyshire, and Anne Pigott, daughter and heiress of Thomas Pigott by his wife Mary Venables, sister and heiress of Sir Peter Venables, Baron of Kinderton in Cheshire. In 1728, he assumed by Royal Licence the additional surname of Venables upon inheriting the Venables estate in Cheshire from his childless cousin Anne, widow of the 2nd Earl of Abingdon.
Viscount Harcourt, of Stanton Harcourt in the County of Oxford, was a title created twice for members of the Harcourt family, once in the Peerage of Great Britain and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
Francesca da Rimini or Francesca da Polenta was a medieval noblewoman of Ravenna, who was murdered by her husband, Giovanni Malatesta, upon his discovery of her affair with his brother, Paolo Malatesta. She was a contemporary of Dante Alighieri, who portrayed her as a character in the Divine Comedy.
Benvenuto Rambaldi da Imola, or simply and perhaps more accurately Benvenuto da Imola, was an Italian scholar and historian, a lecturer at Bologna. He is now best known for his commentary on Dante's Divine Comedy.
George Venables-Vernon, 1st Baron Vernon, was a British politician.
George Anson, known as George Adams until 1773, was a Staffordshire landowner from the Anson family and a British Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1761 and 1769.
George John Warren Venables-Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon, was a British politician. He was one of the last members of parliament for Derbyshire and the first for South Derbyshire. Vernon had a lifetime enthusiasm for Italian literature, particularly Dante after visiting Italy as a child. Vernon county is named after him in Australia.
George William Henry Venables-Vernon, 7th Baron Vernon PC, styled The Honourable George Venables-Vernon from 1866 to 1883, was a British Liberal politician. He served as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms under William Gladstone from 1892 to 1894.
Sir Charles Sedley, 2nd Baronet, was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1747 and 1778.
Sir John Peter Boileau, 1st Baronet FRS, DL, JP was a British baronet and archaeologist.
Admiral Sir Reginald John James George Macdonald was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, East Indies Station.
Thomas Garnier the Younger was Dean of Lincoln from 1860 until his death in 1863.
Giovanni da Serravalle, also known as Giovanni de Bertoldi, was a Sammarinese Franciscan and humanist, who became bishop of Fermo and bishop of Fano (1417–1445). He is now best known for his commentary on Dante.
Casella was an Italian composer and singer, none of whose works have survived.
Gaia da Camino was an Italian noblewoman and poet hailing from Treviso, Italy. Her family was descended from the Lombards. She is mentioned briefly in Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
Commander Francis Lawrance William Venables-Vernon, 9th Baron Vernon DL, styled The Honourable Francis Venables-Vernon from 1889 to 1915, was a British soldier.
Frances Margaret Venables-Vernon, Baroness Vernon was an American heiress who married into the British aristocracy.
Augustus Henry Venables-Vernon, 6th Baron Vernon, was a British landowner and soldier.
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