"A Dante Society among fishermen"

Title: "A Dante Society among fishermen"
Name: Graydon, Katherin Merrill
Link to full text: Graydon, Katherin Merrill "A Dante Society among fishermen"in Dial, Sept. 1, 1897, vol. xxiii, p. 110
Description: in Dial, Sept. 1, 1897, vol. xxiii, p. 110 .

A letter to the editor detailing the existence of a Dante Society in San Francisco Bay.
"(To the Editor of THE DIAL.)

In your issue for June 1, the article upon " Dante in
America " suggests the publication of an interesting
fact. About San Francisco Bay is a settlement of Italian
fishermen whose condition is apparently without an aspir-
ation other than to have a supply of the black bread they
eat and the sour wine they drink ; yet these people sup-
port a society for the study of Dante.

One wonders whether a similar organization could be
found among English miners, for a knowledge of their
great Shakespeare!

KATHARINE MERRILL GRAYDON.
Berkeley, Cal., August 15, 1897"
Type of resource: Article
Language: Italian
Date of Publication: 1897
Era: 1860–1899
Type of reception: Critical; Non creative