Excerpt from The Portraits of Dante Compared With the Measurement of His Skull and Reclassified
Whoever in this centenary year would study the history and bibliography of the portraits of Dante must perforce read Dr. Holbrook's standard book. Accordingly I have not thought it necessary to repeat unduly the matter provided so richly and agreeably in his pages. Save for the scrupulous use of the measurements of Dante's skull and their graphic application to the problem of the portraits, I can claim little originality for my work. I hope, however, to have put beyond dispute the fact that the Palatine Miniature is the most authentic likeness, and to have given a more acceptable account of the sources of Signorelli's and of Raphael's Dante than we have had hitherto. I have tried also to give an improved classification of the minor and eccentric types. Beyond this the Riccardian Portrait and the so-called Death-mask are shown to be of identical profile. While I have sought to give due credit to my numerous predecessors - my debt to Holbrook especially is great and gladly acknowledged - I have shunned the ungracious task of noting old errors, natural at the time, the correction of which is now obvious to any careful reader. To Mrs. Emily A. Murray of the Photostat Department of the Princeton University Library I am under deep obligations for her patient and accurate work in reducing the skull and diagrams to precise measurements. Without her aid I could hardly have made my tribute before the Centenary. I wish also to thank my friend Professor Irving Babbitt for reading the proofs. To have had my rough diagrams redrawn by a professional hand would have given them and this book a more workmanlike aspect. But I feared falsification of the delicate measurements in such a process, and have preferred to present my graphic material in its crude integrity.
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