Publisher's Synopsis
For this discourse is not about the Pious Pagans whom the poet found in honorable confinement at the Gate of Hell, nor of their neighbors the Unchristened Babies; but I am glad of Dante's authority for the existence of a place holding such creatures as have just missed a necessary rite, or come too soon for thorough salvation. And I am glad, moreover, that the poet has insisted on the importance -- "gente di molto valore" -- of the beings thus enclosed; because it is just with the superior quality of the things in what I mean by Limbo that we are peculiarly concerned. . . .
